[His interest in hazardous overseas assignments can be traced back to a childhood fascination.] I was in fifth grade during the Gulf War in 1991,.. I remember drawing a map of the Middle East and watching CNN nightly with my dad. One day, I even asked my teacher if I could skip gym class to hear a speech by General Norman Schwarzkopf.
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She has been Stalinized out of literary history on the theory that she messed up Eliot's life.
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He murdered my husband with a car
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A Daily Dance with Death.
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He's been wanting to do this forever,.. Mike began writing in sixth grade.
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[That creative drive was challenged during his subsequent two years at Rice.] In my first three months there, I was banned from the school paper for a controversial editorial that they never published about permission to chew gum,.. I described the principal in an unflattering way.
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I was a researcher on Friday and Saturday nights,.. But I spent a lot more time there. We were having a heat wave and the office was air-conditioned. They mistook me for a hard worker.
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[His strategy finally paid off.] When the invasion of Iraq started, I told a few editors and the chief of correspondents that I'd love to go,.. At first, they laughed. But eventually people told me: 'We always like to give young reporters new opportunities.'
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Palm trees don't change color.
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The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending 00 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.
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