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...soon learned that maybe I should have stayed outside. The stink of cheap cologne, and I mean really cheap, was combined with a heavy alcoholic stench that hung over the room in such a thick fog that I had trouble breathing. Men were shouting all over the place, as the doors were late in opening. Even the Salvation Army Man had earphones on. I decided to check our tickets and see where we were sitting. First row, floor. I looked at Nate. He was practically giggling with glee, managing to sputter "five-feet from the ring!" I told him that...
...just kind of focus and suddenly everything starts pointing in that direction. When you get that focus, then those connections come to you. I think you make your own luck. Sometimes nothing seems to gel, because I haven't got my antennae out. And other times, ideas come thick and fast...
...mail came thick and fast. A lot of it agreed with me. The most unsettling messages brainlessly cheered me on by making the totally false and insulting assumption that I share John Rocker's views and, worse, that Rocker was absolutely right in what he said. Naturally, the run-to-mommy prisses were heard from: "Ooo, ooo, Johnny Rocker said a bad word, and I'm gonna tell!" Numerous messages said Rocker deserved to be keelhauled and flogged around the fleet...
...debate or bracing himself for Tuesday's must-win G.O.P. primary vote in New Hampshire--he likes to stuff his pockets full of talismans--the lucky compass one of his supporters gave him, the lucky pen, the lucky feather. McCain puts on his lucky shoes--L.L. Bean stompers with thick black lugs--and he's glad to see his aides wearing their lucky ties. He's as superstitious as a 10-year...
Serving poor, underperforming schools in the glare of big-city politics has always required an unusual combination of warm heart and thick skin, brass-knuckles management and political deftness. But in the past decade "it's turned into a keep-your-bags-packed kind of career," says Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools...