On the drive over, Richards kept marveling at the transforming power of having a felony to commit. His brother looked more like his "normal" self now than at any time in the previous weeks, that is, like a calm, basically reasonable individual, a manly sort of fellow with a certain presence. They talked about Richards' daughter and along other noncontroversial lines. At the airport Richards stood by quietly, if nervously, while Joel transacted his business at the ticket counter, then passed a blue daypack, containing the kilo of cocaine among other things, through the security x-ray. Richards had planned to stop right here--just say good-bye, go outside and start to breathe again--but for some reason he followed his brother through the checkpoint. In silence they proceeded down a broad, sparsely peopled corridor; Joel, with his daypack slung casually over one shoulder, a cigarette occupying his other hand, had given Richards his fiddle case to carry. Soon they became aware of a disturbance up ahead: a murmurous roar, a sound like water surging around the piles of a pier. The corridor forked and they found themselves in a broad lobby, which was jammed now with Hawaiian travelers, prospective vacationers numbering in the hundreds. Just as they arrived, a flight attendant, dressed like a renter of cabanas on the beach at Waikiki, picked up a mike and made the final announcement to board. In response to which, those travelers not already on their feet, not already formed in long, snaky line three or four people abreast, arose. The level of hopeful chatter, of sweetly anticipatory human excitement, increased palpably, and Richards, whose response to crowds was generally nervous, self-defensively ironic, instinctively held back. But his brother plunged right in--took up a place at the front of the line, and from this position, with an eager, good-natured expression on his face, surveyed his companions. Now the line started to move forward quickly. Richards, inching along on a roughly parallel course, two or three feet behind his brother, sought vainly for something comical to say, some reference to sunburns to come, Bermuda shorts, Holiday Inn luaus, and the like. Joel, beckoning him closer, seemed to want the fiddle case back. But it was Richards himself whom he suddenly clasped, held to his chest with clumsy force. Wordlessly embracing, gasping like a couple of wrestlers, they stumbled together over a short distance full of strangers, and only as the door of the gate approached, the flight attendant holding out a hand for boarding passes, did Richards' brother turn without a word and let him go.
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ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive... ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth. ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ... ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced. ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's... ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi... ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i... ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ... ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge... ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear... ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t... ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati... ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes... ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases. ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. ROBERT MUGABE We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating. ROBERT MUGABE In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East ... ROBERT MUGABE Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse. ROBERT MUGABE If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth ... ROBERT MUGABE Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have... ROBERT MUGABE Zimbabwe will never be a colony again. ROBERT MUGABE Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, wri... ROBERT KYNCL The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T... ROBERT KENNEDY If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financia... ROBERT KIYOSAKI The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co... ROBERT KENNEDY French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries. ROBERT KIYOSAKI Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the pro... ROBERT MUGABE I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on. ROBERT KRAFT To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. ROBERT BYRD And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The ... ROBERT BYRD This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history. ROBERT BYRD It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack.... ROBERT BYRD The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue th... ROBERT BYRD It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of th... ROBERT BYRD Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess? ROBERT BYRD Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the wo... ROBERT BYRD I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times o... ROBERT BYRD Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of havi... ROBERT BYRD