It was nearly 10 p.m. on Wednesday when Paul Broun, a Republican congressman from Georgia, rose on the House floor to propose that no more money be spent enforcing a section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
I spoke with a Hawaiian who started telling me about his marital troubles in New York, before spending a flat section with a native of Belfast who bemoaned the lack of a good fish and chip shop in Oxford.
In years past, that would have just been something I accepted, but this is not the NES era and I spent a lot of those sections wishing Lara had a dagger full of magic sand.
Among other things now I teach a Masters class in reporting and spend an entire section on the ethics of journalism, a course I remember to this day from the University of Missouri J-School.
For the final section the actors spent a week practising the choreography behind walking backwards with an appropriately simian gait.
In 1969, after earning his medical degree, Mr. Crichton moved to the La Jolla section of San Diego and spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
In April, for example, the Rooneys showed up at the New Jersey section of Palisades Interstate Park and spent a Sunday morning cleaning up the park's waterfront.
In the beginning, assembly-line stations in Hu's section had spent an average of three minutes performing their tasks; now they required only two minutes and five seconds.
We were spending a morning in a section that is also jet territory...when the peace was disturbed by a frightening series of sonic booms.
"I'm not opposed to rocks," he explained, "but generally I want to get the thing in and not spend a year excavating a section".
