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...more than eleven months, he was blindfolded when in the presence of his captors. They had taken his glasses, so the view from his window was mostly a blur. He left his room on the top floor of a two-story apartment house only to visit a bathroom next door, always under the eyes of armed guards. At night he was chained either to a radiator or a wall. He knew only that he was somewhere in the Middle East and wondered if he would leave the building alive...
...window is open and the breeze that enters the room makes you happy in an inexplicable way--all you can do is invite everyone to share, to inhale...
...place where millionaires bought gifts to lavish on their "kept" women. Her mother, the lovely Gertrude Russeks, was the daughter of the store's founder. Forever ill at ease with the over-indulgent life style her parents provided, the young Diane would force herself to "stand on the window ledge of her parents' apartment in the San Remo, 11 stories above Central Park West ... for as long as she could, gazing out at the trees and skyscrapers in the distance until her mother pulled her back inside." Here we get the first glimpse of a suicidal strain that would...
...daughter Emilia once said to me, "My father lives in the skies. For 25 years he has not set foot on the streets of Moscow. All he sees is the view from his car window...
...very optimistic about getting a bill, but will we get a-bill which really does the job or is just a symbolic gesture?" Collins said. He is less optimistic that the "window for opportunity for education is closing...