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...senior civil servant from Islamabad, and a few tribal elders were all waiting, too. All of us were sitting in straight-backed chairs along the wall like humble supplicants in an Ottoman court, while the Home Secretary, Azmat Hanif Orakzai, fielded phone calls from the governor and the garrison commander. He put the phone down and eyed us three newcomers, while twisting the end of his mustache. Suddenly, TIME photographer Alexandra Boulat, who happens to be a willowy French woman, stood up and said: "Sir, I'm fed up of bouncing along these roads. We want to go the border...
Minnesota comedy phenom Garrison Keilor, of “A Prairie Home Companion” fame, and Steve Martin are offering up their talents for “Comedy College,” a new radio show on Minnesota Public Radio. It started last Saturday and it runs...
...loser in the election, Althea Garrison (R), claimed just over 2% of the votes. Garrison is a regular candidate on the Boston political scene, known for changing loyalties from Democrat to Independent to Republican and changing sex from male to female...
...Garrison Keillor's essay about his emotions as he slowly recovered from major surgery [ESSAY, Aug. 13] still has me chuckling. It was right on the mark. I had a similar experience in January, when my heart's plumbing was altered and doctors and nurses looked after me for a week. As Keillor said, a day's work for them, a revelation of human kindness for me. After three days, I was feeling fine and was as flirtatious as any 62-year-old man could be under the same circumstances--that is, until I looked in the mirror the first...
Having spent nearly two months hospitalized for three major abdominal surgeries, I can identify with Garrison Keillor and his description of his slow recovery from major surgery [ESSAY, Aug. 13]. When we do survive an operation and undergo a long recovery process, we realize how truly wonderful life is. Our selective thinking processes alter in deciding what is important and what is not. We learn to live with what we have, even if it is not what we want. These are revelations that make the hospital experience almost worthwhile. I compare it with my military service when I was drafted...