Travel Reference
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just as you go on composing sentences on faith. Eventually, you can make out the end,
or imagine it, but until then you're just a wandering New Yorker, lost in the West.
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A week after the operation I started my first job out of grad school teaching eighth-grade summer school
students, one of whom enjoyed imitating my painful gait in front of the class whenever I was out of the room.
The kid grew up to be the television journalist Jon Frankel, and I grew up to work for his father, Max Frankel,
now the former executive editor of the
New York Times
.
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Another is that after nearly flunking Introduction to Drama my sophomore year in college—I received a D
and deserved it—I became a theater reporter and critic for the
New York Times
.
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The Supreme Court upheld the health-care law, formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act and less formally as Obamacare, by a 5-4 vote in June 2012. Several months later, Senator Baucus
announced he would not seek reelection in 2014. In early 2014, he was nominated by President Obama to be
the American ambassador to China.
