"Until I met Sally I had this impression of what being an astronaut was like," NASA astronaut Cady Coleman said during the event, adding that she assumed it was a career for tough, fighter pilot types who were very different from herself.
This is their first collection and ranges over anarchist community builders, tough river pilots, militant socialist trade unionists, new women, coffee taverns, riots and garden suburbs.
As recent discussions here on South Jerusalem have indicated (see Israelis for Obama--Now the Movie and Those Filthy, Lying Minorities), much Jewish-American hesitation about Obama stems from suspicion about his Muslim-sounding middle name and from a prejudice that a tough-sounding pilot and war hero is somehow going to protect Israel better than a community organizer and law professor.
"I think part of the problem in bobsled is we have athletes come here who qualify on tracks that aren't as tough," the Canadian pilot Pierre Lueders said.
He's a tough character to pilot, this sceptical geek know-it-all, but Damon has the charm and wit to land some tricky one-liners.
The journey has been tough on the pilots, who have been on oxygen for days; high altitude can take a physical toll.
At the dock, a forty-foot vessel called the Beg God, with a single outboard motor, a cargo of nails in wooden boxes, a crew of three or four young toughs, and a pilot named Abraham was leaving that night for Calamar.
"He will surprise you because he doesn't look like he's tough," says Steve McPhail, a pilot and former vice president of the Southwest pilots' union.
A&E had been enthusiastic about what it had seen in the pilot: a tough, atmospheric character piece about a veteran F.B.I. agent, Barker, paired with a partner, Ellis Dove (played by Travis Fimmel), assigned to become his confidant while also informing on him.
Tough Sh t is a pilot event but the charity has already had lots of interest and are hoping this will become a successful annual event.
