En route to a 2007 interview with a Taliban warlord in Afghanistan, the Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo and his 24-year-old interpreter, Ajmal Naqshbandi, were kidnapped.
"We were selected by some standard that we wouldn't have dared level on our usual friendships," Linda Asher, a seventy-seven-year-old interpreter, said.
David Hamburger, a seventeen-year-old interpreter, wearing a T-shirt that featured the elephant god Ganesh, had met five hundred new people.
Tatyana Ruchkina, a 22-year-old interpreter for Exxon Mobil, increasingly dreads the trip home to Vladivostok, the largest city in eastern Russia.
Our 21-year-old interpreter, who had taken to wearing a baseball cap backward, recited youthful dreams of visits to America, to New York, where he could leave behind the life in a country he despised.
Shock rolled through the nation on Wednesday as millions of South Koreans started their day watching a televised video of the hostage, Kim Sun Il, a 33-year-old interpreter and evangelical Christian, kneeling passively before his masked Muslim captors.
Ahmed, a 27-year-old interpreter for the American military, was riding back from work in the Green Zone on his motorcycle when men at a checkpoint in his neighborhood stopped him.
I recalled something that Yumi Matsushita, a 33-year-old interpreter, said to me: "You commute long hours in unfashionable trains and eat bad canteen food and for what?
As intended by the kidnappers, the killing of Kim Sun Il, a 33-year-old interpreter, pumped new life into a movement to stop the plan to send more troops, a deployment that would make South Korea the third-largest source of foreign troops, after the United States and Britain.
Ali Saleh, a 37-year-old interpreter who worked for the military for four years, said he was barely able to leave his neighborhood in western Baghdad, never mind travel with his wife and 2-year-old son to Jordan, where border authorities turned away one of his friends.
