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… but equally potent founding myths. In one, William Randolph comes from nowhere, has no money, arrives with only an axe … very height of the Middle Ages, when knights wore their ladies’ favors on their helmets and went out to tilt in their … instance, that Richmond and El Cerrito, California, were endpoints on one fork of the Great Migration; that the …
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… against the curved plastic band.” I pushed forward. “Come forward, please.” I pushed forward again. My eyes were … Agassi hung on the walls, the same National Latin Exam medals hung over the trophies on my bookcase. But the lines on … from my Psych-1 class that reassured me. We’d read about studies that showed that sighted people have all kinds of …
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… the phone about his deteriorating medical condition and his coming to Houston for surgery. I remember hanging up and telling my wife, also a physician, “Hana, he’s dying.” So when I read the … is perhaps his magnum opus, an epic lyric that has become an international literary phenomenon through the …
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… I spar regularly with the guys and improve. I’ve bloodied several noses and even scored my first knockdown. My … me winning the British light-welter-weight title.” He points to a faded photograph on the wall—a man with rippling … would be illegal. But he’s scheduled a nine-stone fight—a 126-pound limit—against an experienced kickboxer who wants to …
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… of 1961, we gravitated toward each other as friends, rivals, and fellow hellraisers who shared a literary bent. … at a NATO headquarters near Heidelberg, Germany. In the comfort of an office that had once served the army of the … before Tom’s suicide (initially, she was told that Tom died that night). She was living alone then and hadn’t seen …
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… past. I have always been a writer, but I’ve never been a competent diarist; until that summer, I had measured out my … place by the door. This was 2004, the year my best friend died, and I stopped taking pictures of the world because it … linear narrative. Photographs offered characters, plot points; the album shaped these into story. But if the album …