"I was accepted at Barnard College and I was denied admission when I arrived because they had a quota of two.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

When I was a young child in school, I had to learn the three R's.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

I had my head in and was about to open the lantern, when my finger slid on a piece of metal and made a noise.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

"Any and all Valentine's when I actually had a girlfriend." And the worst memory?

VOA: special.2010.02.08

"Oh,I think a recent Thanksgiving when my son and I had a turkey cook-off.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

When I had waited a long time, without hearing him lie down, I decided to open a little -- a very,very little -- crack in the lantern.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

when I've been surprised. When we had like a surprise we got to go out to someplace very fancy, didn't really know what was going to happen ahead of time.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

"One soldier had been fighting in the jungles for years. And I don't know if it had affected him or not, but when the clerk handed him a tweed suit to try on he spent three hours searching through the fuzz for snipers."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

And every night, late at night, I turned the lock of his door and opened it C oh,so gently! And then, when I had made an opening big enough for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed that no light shone out, and then I stuck in my head.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

And then last year when I saw him, he had a company and it was worth several million dollars."

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

"Maybe I am trying to make up for all that negativity and hate I had when I was a child.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"So when I came out of the Army, I had already decided I wanted to be a part of breaking down segregation."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

"When I came here to the Senate, we had a lot of moderate Republicans who worked with us on everything, and we worked with them,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

And when I turned 16, I had it made into a ring and we discovered it was actually a star sapphire and not a black pearl.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31