Word: motherã
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...terrible ordeal indeed. Walker (he goes by his mother??s maiden name) was taken prisoner by the Northern Alliance after the fall of Kunduz and imprisoned in the now-infamous Kala Jangi fortress. At the prison, Newsweek reported recently, he refused to answer questions posed by two CIA agents. Shortly after he was sent back to his cell, one of his interrogators, CIA agent Johnny “Mike” Spann, was killed by Walker’s comrades-in-arms...
Angela Hur: I’m writing a novel that centers around the translation of a dead mother??s diaries (written in Korean) and the resulting love triangle that develops among the mother (in the form of her writing), the translator and the daughter (an archivist and the narrator). So basically it’s about language, obsessions with textual characters, a threesome with your mom and lots of paper. A major part of the novel is the family story, typically dysfunctional and told through the daughter’s memories triggered by the diary entries...
...while researching The Razor’s Edge. Maugham’s influence on Willie’s father is strong enough that, once a proper wife is found, the son gets Maugham’s first and middle names. The wife—Willie’s mother??is ugly, hideous and low-caste, another way in which his father debases himself and spites his family...
Some time between turning off the bridge to face the vibrant crowds along First Avenue, and grasping my mother??s hand for a fleeting moment just before mile 18, I changed my mind. I decided that a marathon is about defying expectations and challenging the limits of human achievement. I run in defiance of the voice inside me that says I cannot, and my success reaffirms a deep confidence I have in the human ability to dream the impossible, and to realize such wild dreams. Tragically, I feel that the World Trade Center disaster is testimony...
...faith that a school with an $18 billion endowment would come through with some financial aid.” Like Lash, receiving her award statement brought little comfort. “My family’s finances look much better on paper; even with the mitigating circumstances of my mother??s cancer and other issues, the financial aid committee gave us nothing. I can’t even describe how upset we all were when I got that letter. There weren’t even words. And this year, my dad called and he wrote letters and provided...