The game was about over, the Lions had won, and here came the ice water, over Rod Marinelli's neck and shoulders."How many times," someone asked him after the game, "have you had one of those buckets dumped on you?""This was the first one," he said.
This should make you angrier than you have been over almost anything since Sept. 11 - and that includes the war in Iraq.A recent report showed that 75% of fake bombs or bomb parts got past Transportation Security Administration security at Los Angeles International Airport and 60% got past TSA screeners at Chicago's O'Hare.Those are two of the busiest airports in the world. Those are two of the juiciest targets a terrorist could desire.
They hook their fingers and start to run, arms swaying in unison, feet thumping stride for stride. A short black man named Michael Holmes, a tall lanky white man named Bill Guisinger. They run inches apart, all but breathing on each other.The funny thing is, Michael has never seen Bill. Wouldn't know him if walked right past. Michael is blind. His world went dark in 1978, when he was in his early 20s, the result of cataracts and glaucoma.
Mitch Albom writes about running an orphanage in impoverished Port-au-Prince, Haiti, his kids, their hardships, laughs and challenges, and the life lessons he’s learned there every day.