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#1 I am an infantry officer right out of school, which makes me dangerous. I can make a mess with two-thousand-pound bombs. I am the terror of plastic targets. I want to destroy al-Qaeda, which is easy to demonize with their werewolf faces and medieval ways.
#2 I was about to break the news to my wife, Elizabeth, that I was going to Afghanistan. She was shocked. She...
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#1 Mama was a tall, long-waisted, young Black woman with the deep-set paisley eyes and high, full cheekbones of her Filipina and half-Cherokee grandmothers. She was a beautiful woman, but she took pride in controlling her own destiny.
#2 I was born in 1984 when my parents were still living with their parents. My mom was seventeen when she got pregnant with me, and my...
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#1 The Ottoman Empire was in decline by the time the PERA Palace was founded. The Eastern Question, a conglomeration of territorial disputes, nationalist movements, and international standoffs, had roiled the empire for decades.
#2 In 1908, the Ottoman Empire was forced to accept a constitutional monarchy and restore the imperial parliament. The Unionists were...
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#1 In the final days of 1999, just as he had each December for several years, Konstantin Ernst prepared to film the presidential New Year's address. Yeltsin asked him to film it on New Year's Eve at five in the morning.
#2 On the last day of the twentieth century, Yeltsin announced his resignation from the presidency. His successor would be Vladimir Putin, a politician...
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#1 Robert Stewart Jr. was hired by the Department of Veterans Affairs to produce 6 million N95 respirators, medical-grade masks, which were in short supply.
#2 Stewart's aura seemed to be everything you'd want in a contractor handling a government contract. But his story was that he had 6 million N95 masks, which he claimed were stored in a Los Angeles warehouse with...
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Book Preview: #1 We were moving from Boise, Idaho, to Rome, Italy. I had never been to Rome, but I imagined decadence, dark brown oil paintings, and emperors in sandals. I saw a coloring book I once got for Christmas that had pictures of ancient Rome.
#2 I was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and was given a studio, the keys to this apartment, and $1,300 a month to live on...
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Book Preview: #1 I heard my mother singing along with the radio, and I was drawn to her road in the world. She was a Creek Indian woman, and her singing attracted me to her life. She had what seemed to be a perpetual longing in her heart.
#2 The song that my mother was singing when I saw her walking the floor at midnight was a heartbreak ballad. I saw her walk the floor after hearing...
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#1 I had been placed with four other freshmen in Hill House: Santos, Gabe, Max, and Kyle. The suite came to resemble a ruinous, burgeoning landfill. I felt out of place, constantly anxious. I wasn't cut out for college.
#2 I was accepted to Sarah Lawrence, a college my mom had gone to. I was one of the least weird people there, and the unofficial school slogan was, We're...
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#1 On the docks in England, the troops wait for the first dimout of the evening to arrive. The men wear their helmets, which make them all look alike, and they look like long rows of mushrooms.
#2 The embarkation was completed at midnight. The ship remained against the pier and a light breathing sound came from deep in her. The troops were cut off now and gone from home,...
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#1 I was four years old when my mother and brother moved to Singapore. I would grow up as if I were a single child, but I didn't know that at the time. My grandmother was seventy, and her post-retirement project was me.
#2 On June 29, 1997, the anchor Keith Yuen announced that Hong Kong would be handed over to China thirty more hours later on July 1. The handover ceremony...
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#1 The NFL Scouting Combine is a yearly event that takes place in Indianapolis, Indiana, two months before the NFL Draft. Over the course of three grueling days, an average of 330 of the country's top prospects are invited to complete an extensive battery of physical and mental tests.
#2 I had the privilege of working with the coaching elite's of the Jacksonville Jaguars,...
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#1 Mokhtar was a man of action and purpose. He had finally saved enough money to enroll at City College of San Francisco, and he was ready to start law school in the fall. He thought about what it would be like to have a law degree, and eventually run for office.
#2 Mokhtar lost the satchel containing the three thousand dollars and his new eleven-hundred-dollar laptop...
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#1 The Ironman World Championship is a legendary test of endurance that takes place in the paradisiacal setting of Kona, Hawaii. It is the equivalent of swimming 77 lengths of an Olympic-sized pool. Many of the triathletes look apprehensive as they wait for the starting gun, but their spirits are buoyed by a band of Hawaiian drummers and thousands of cheering spectators.
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