It wasn't an easy trip, but nor was it as difficult as people had told her it would be (one Israeli friend insisted that, as a Jewish woman, there was simply no way she should venture into the "axis of evil").
A friend insists that her children address all adults by last name and courtesy title (Mr. Smith, Mrs. Jones).
"My job... is to be able to distinguish important phenomena from unimportant, to be able to illuminate characters and speak with their tongues," he wrote to a friend, insisting that his characters' ideas must be "examined like objects".
I am from Sierra Leone, although a friend insists that by making my home in the UK I am insufficiently committed to creating change in a country that has bore the brunt of war, disease and decades of poverty.
Somewhat improbably, a gay friend insisted that he update his reading on homosexuality ("Basically, it had been Chesterton and 'Brideshead Revisited'") with memoirs by David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs as well as James Hamilton-Paterson's "Cooking with Fernet Branca".
Langdale, a hotel developer and an old Bush friend, insisted that the original name had led to some unintentional misunderstandings.
Mr. Elmers drew up specifications for his own coach, then a friend insisted on buying that, & the next thing Elmers & Fuller were in business.
Browder whispered to his friend, "Are you sure you didn't do anything?" His friend insisted that he hadn't.
Next, our journalist friend insisted that we listen to the protesters' chants.
My Singaporean friend insisted that we try another beef dish, beef randang, made of braised cubes of meat rich with the flavors of lemongrass, ginger, curry and coconut milk.
