Word: picked
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...nought. Second, there's no telling what will happen if Goldstein testifies. "The danger of bringing a witness to the stand is that the advantages his testimony provides may be outweighed by whatever negative evidence might also come out," says TIME senior writer Alain Sanders. "You can't pick and choose the parts you like in courtroom testimony; when he's up there for cross-examination, anything can happen." Especially with a witness who once asked his doctors for glasses so he could find the people whose voices he kept hearing in his head...
...make about $25 per hour on a good day. Groceries, laundry, fixing his bow and a plane ticket to Kansas City to see his honey all serve as motivation to collect coins and bills in his carpeted violin case; he has also received action figures, valentines, cigarettes and even pick up lines from drag queens. Aside from supporting his college lifestyle, Jones says he enjoys "making friends with some of the homeless" and the "great amount of enjoyment" he receives from entertaining passers...
...Like many players, my grandparents followed what my high school theology teacher would have called an authoritarian method for picking horses. Before hopping Gus' bus, my grandfather would pay $2 for a handicapping sheet xeroxed on bright orange paper in the cigarette store across Second Avenue from his apartment. This sheet, which was compiled by "Clocker Lawton," tipped three horses in each of Aqueduct's nine races that day. Lawton--the only clue to whose identity was a grainy photograph of a man in a trenchcoat and a wide-brimmed hat, a cross between Elliott Ness and John Wayne, printed...
...black hair, dark skin and a slightly rotund physique. He is soft-spoken yet intelligent, and eases into casual conversation with the fluidity of a professional. "I give rides to the whole spectrum of society, from the lowest to the highest," he says with a charming Spanish accent. "I pick up professors, I pick up students, I pick up drug dealers, I pick up pimps.... I'm very open-minded when I talk to people...
...tours in the Marines, then some other shit. But now I'm back. I live just down the road now, like two miles away. But I'm never fucking coming back. I just called my friend. An Italian guy, lives down the road in Ledyard. He's gonna come pick me up. Shit, I'm never coming back. Fuck...