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...seemed possible for undersized string instruments to contain. Matt and Andrew were transfixed. Half an hour later, Erin abandoned her stool and introduced herself as a friend of the bass player—he was Erin’s husband’s cousin, and that was her husband, over there, and that girl spinning on the dance floor? That was the bass player’s other cousin. Soon, Erin was sitting down, telling us about her bachelorette party, and then about her wedding, and how she desperately wanted children, but she was 28, losing time. Maybe...
Later, her husband Matt joined us, and our Matt pulled him a chair. The conversation turned to politics. The older Matt said he was a Democrat, and Andrew asked why Al Gore’s home state had gone to Bush. “Well, you know, there’s a ton of rednecks here in Tennessee,” he replied. “And after 9/11, they were spoilin’ for a fight.” Andrew nodded. “But now—what? two years later?—they?...
...wasn't my husband in an armored vehicle?" says Jay Hunt's wife Colleen from her home in Kentucky. "I have an eight-year-old and a four-year-old who don't have a father because someone screwed up." ERSM's Dubai-based managing director, Simon Crane, says the front and rear cars were not armored because there was no garage in Baghdad capable of correctly armor-plating a BMW. "Hindsight can be a terrible thing," says Crane, who served as a British Army officer from 1988 to 2003. The men in the convoy applied "exactly the correct fire...
...people. "I could never have imagined the things I'm doing now in my life," says Hue, 26. "Just a few years ago, I wanted to die as soon as possible." In Vietnam, those infected are usually silent and shunned. Hue became a defiant exception. After her drug-addict husband infected her, she went public, and set up a support group in her native town of Hai Phong. In the past year her group has grown to 35 employees and volunteers, thanks to overseas donations. But Hue is still seeking a new pre-school for her young son, after...
...Only my 77-year-old aunt and her 81-year-old husband are holding out. Despite repeated rounds of cajoling, hollering and begging, the pair refuses to leave their house in Montgomery County, just north of Houston, even though there's been a call for elderly people to evacuate. "I've talked to my neighbors and to security and everyone says it'll be windy and we'll get some rain, but that's all," insists Peggy Nordstrom. "We're going to be fine...