Since Hussein was known to have interpreted for American soldiers at the start of the war, he said, his name had long been on the Mahdi Army's blacklist.
Mr. Champion normally would have interpreted for the lead character Chuck Baxter Sean Hayess), but he has been easing back his workload — he was signing for some of the supporting characters, while two others signed for the main characters — as he confronts personal hardship.
"It's the sign of recognition the country has been waiting for for years," says Eric Abrahamsen, a Beijing-based translator who has interpreted for the author at events.
"He's not a political risk taker, but he's nobody's lackey," said Eric Abrahamsen, a literary translator who has interpreted for Mo at several events.
Almodóvar is deaf in one ear, and Marcantonio, a film professor at George Mason University, who has interpreted for him since the 2004 film "Bad Education," knew to stand on his left.
On Monday, the Pentagon, which had hosted the signing ceremony in its Hall of Heroes, announced a hasty plan to pull together the names of Iraqis who had interpreted for U.S. forces, so that the White House could exempt them from the ban.
The latest numbers, as one analyst from Electronic Entertainment Design and Research has interpreted for us, suggest that Guitar Hero sales may have peaked.
He has interpreted for popes, presidents, but no crowned heads.
52.2% of respondents reported having interpreted for a patient at some time in the past, most often for English, German, Spanish and Italian.
Either way, that just doesn't seem to be how judges have interpreted this right for pretty much as long as there's been a Second Amendment to interpret.
Recent studies have interpreted the need for repertoire diversity within the T-cell compartment from a totally different perspective, namely, one of regulation of immune responsiveness [ 12, 13].
