Just a stack of words on paper, they are also a chronicle of the past 13 years: descriptions to him of my travels as a development consultant; his accounts to me of trying to get innocence projects, journalists, and attorneys to listen to his case.
It was not in my job description to help him in the evenings and, as a student, I would have been removed from my placement if I had gone to see him.
Or, perhaps he books the hotel and chooses the bar, then sends a text message to the 'escort agency' requesting a woman matching his partner's description to meet him at a bar.
We have Kripke's intuition that there is only one, unique Moses, but we will need descriptions to find him.
In the rehearsed voice of an actor reciting his lines, he asks, "Will one of you please tell me which way is north?" That the two men do not exactly match the descriptions given to him by his instructors does not seem to worry YoungThing.
Shortly thereafter, the responding officer found two men with skateboards who resembled the descriptions provided to him.
He beckons to a group of musicians wielding scuffed brass instruments of every description to squeeze in tighter around him, closer and closer, until the bell of a trumpet player's horn is almost enveloping his head.
It is incorrect, however, to think of him as a Cold Warrior pure and simple, as — to use the description commonly applied to him — the Cold War's "architect".
Two teenagers who work at Panera Bread, near FuncoLand, said one of their co-workers may have seen enough to give police a description of what, to him, appeared to be two men leaving the store.
