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...time word had gotten around the neighborhood in Elkhart that someone famous was on their street, the crowd had grown to around 200. But it was a mob with Indiana manners; they formed a line on the sidewalk and waited patiently for him to greet each in turn. One trembling teen-ager handed Obama a cell phone and asked him to say hello to her friend Hillary, a big Obama fan. "Hi Hillary!" Obama said with a mischevous grin, telling the crowd: "And she supports...
...anyway). Handey’s dark and bizarre humor works. In his sketch “Fuzzy Memories,” a collection of individual childhood recollections, he writes, “When I was about ten years old, we set up a lemonade stand on the sidewalk in front of our house. But we didn’t sell many glasses, and after a few hours, we took it down. I think that was the first time I realized that the world doesn’t give a damn about you or anything...
...recently appointed school trustee, it was a surprising sight: the Princeton-educated headmaster of one of New York’s most prestigious preparatory schools seated, book in hand, not in a study, but a few feet away from parked cars and a city sidewalk...
...into lampposts or trash bins. One of the most hazardous streets for "walking while texting," according to the Monty Python-esque video clip, is East London's busy Brick Lane, lined with trendy boutiques and curry shops, where people have been filmed walking head down, ricocheting off various stationary sidewalk objects. The solution? Wrap Brick Lane's lampposts with fluffy, white rugby goalpost cushions...
...under the simple moniker “chow,” or sometimes, if ovens are involved, “hot chow.” When the cadets leave their classroom to make their way towards MIT’s indoor track, their footfalls are quick on the wet sidewalk...