– and then being let go by Legal & General can't have helped his self-esteem, but you've really brought him out of himself, Den, you really have, and getting him to commit like that, well, it's just fantastic, honestly it is".
Sometimes we should stop and ask why terrorists commit outrages like that in a Nairobi shopping mall.
It turns out, there are plenty of reasons besides, say, profile-raising or street cred-garnering; why both visual artists and media megastars would want to commit themselves like that, ranging from romance, to creative freedom, horizon-expansion, bucket list reasons even a dare.
Meanwhile, Tom ran away from the memories of that night, unable to grasp that a man like him ― white, privileged, attractive by Western standards, brought up in a stable family with positive role models ― could commit an act like that.
But it is a boy who has committed a crime like that.
"I think the only surprise for me is that you don't generally have people in their 80s committing crimes like that, especially a female at that age.
People who don't commit don't care like that.
"We don't think that someone can commit an act like that for one reason," Doueiri told me.
"We may very well know that George Washington is the first president and be able to commit some things like that to memory and not have to restudy them.
Junie Ooley had drawn herself up, the eyes shining in her heaven-sent face, and told him that she was flattered by the proposal, flattered and moved, deeply moved, but that she just wasn't ready to commit to something like that, like marriage, that is, what with him being a Shetland sheepman and she an American woman with a college degree, and a rover at that.
I would not commit a crime like that".
