There's an irritating delay, as the scanning machine fails to recognise my prints and I take the opportunity to glance back at Hills sitting there, quite still.
Poverty rates among blacks remain proportionately higher than among whites, so presumably what it means to live in a postracial society is that everyone gets an equal-opportunity shot at "Hills" treatment.
Services to be held 3pm, November 28 at Hills of Eternity Cemetery, Colma, CA. Donations in his memory may be made to Congregation Sherith Israel or The Jewish Home for the Aged, San Francisco.
A quarter century ago, as I looked out from my teacher's living-room window at hills that seemed perpetually sodden, my domain felt hardly less provincial and remote than the Midlands of the eighteen-thirties, which Eliot had described in her novel.
Japanese prisoners captured in later operations referred to the combat at Hills 27 and 31 as The Battle of the Mountain of Blood.
"It definitely showed me that whatever I put my mind to that I can get better at," Hills said on media day.
