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Tran Thanh Khiem, who is only six, was one of the first off the plane in Des Moines. He was very much alone, temporarily separated from his parents on the plane, and missing his name tag. The air was a brisk 45° F with gusty winds, but his lip was trembling out of fear. Then he spotted his father, Tran Van Duoc, hurrying toward him. They were bused to an assembly center where they met Larry and Carol Bailey, representatives of their American sponsor-the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Belmond (pop. 2,500)-who would help...
...conservative ride? In his Confessions, Wills ranges from Jack Ruby to Cardinal Newman, from Everett Dirksen's Washington to St. Augustine's City of God. The pace is brisk, the intellectual hurdles high, the glimpses of auto-biography charming but scattered...
...overall plan of my life I budget for that." As a novelist, Hermitage is intrigued by her economics of the heart. As a man, he is smitten with a case of middle-age rut: He settles into a daily routine: a soul-searching chat with the dying mother, a brisk workout in bed with the daughter, and then back to the writing table and the new Hermitage novel...
...know freshmen. She ran real erratically--35 miles one week and a brisk jog to classes the next. What do you expect, though? She was busy making time as a freshman-guard-with-deadly-quickness-turned-soccer-devotee. Scalise (Bob--women's soccer coach) thought she was the most--real speedy on the wing...
Skimming down a steep, snow-covered road at Camp David in Maryland's lovely Catoctin Mountains, Jimmy Carter was enjoying the brisk air of an afternoon in the woods when the tip of one of his thin skis caught beneath a crust of rough ice. The President of the United States went down hard. The consequences of this tumble were clearly visible when he returned to snow-paralyzed Washington the next day: an ugly purple bruise the size of a silver dollar over his right eye, several bright red scratches on his cheek, a puffy lip and a slight...