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Virginia Willis, 72, a widowed, retired Social Security supervisor, saw her social circle shrink over the years as old friends died, and was bored with the aimless window shopping she sometimes fell into. Since signing up with Experience Corps last year, she has found a new sense of purpose in helping the teacher and kids in a first-grade class at Guilford Elementary School in Baltimore. She's also made a couple of close friends among her teammates. "We start out talking about the children in our classroom and end up talking about our families," she says...
...Exeter Academy in 1931, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. plays a board game called Camelot with a roommate whose mother is best friends from convent school with Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. In the 1970s, Schlesinger lives in a house on Manhattan's East 64th Street. He looks out his bedroom window one day and sees his neighbor Richard M. Nixon "prowling restlessly around his garden." In a little while a party begins at the Schlesinger house. A guest--invited by a friend of his wife's--comes to the door, a man whom Schlesinger has never met: Alger Hiss. They have a polite...
...fast it sounded like a machine gun." At various points one of them would shout that they were a thousand votes down or a thousand votes up. "We lived and died a thousand times tonight," said McKinnon. Spectators hovered outside Rove's office, looking in through a glass window. "We were all standing around like expectant fathers," says Jim Ferguson, a member of Bush's outside ad team. "We were all looking through the window hoping the baby wouldn't come out with three heads." On several occasions, Rove ordered people to stand back from his door, as though...
...night toward Gilo. Last week Israel increased its response from rifle fire to tank shells and then helicopter missiles. One missile shattered the wall of Jamil Muslet's living room. It left a 5-ft. hole in the 200-year-old stone walls and shards of blue window glass on the floor. Looking across the steep, rocky valley to Gilo, less than a mile away, Muslet intertwines his fingers. "We and the Jews live like my interlinked fingers," he says. "Separation is stupidity...
...house, and she got a peek at my new window office. She sent me pictures of Harrison at the pumpkin patch, while I sent snaps of my main squeeze. We had such fun, it hardly felt like work. But since I'm the only one getting paid for this assignment, I think I owe her a big box of chocolates--which to us may be worth a thousand digital pictures...