每周五，邮报都会多投一个塑料包。里面装着厚厚一沓各大商家投放的印刷广告：Macy’s, Best Buy, Verizon, Safeway…数不胜数。广告纸上印着好多coupon(优惠印花券)，剪下来去买该产品的话可以省个五毛一块什么的。所以，周末在家剪coupon是美国大多数主妇都干的事。我不干这个，再说自己也没那么多东西要买。但印刷广告后附赠的那一本薄薄的WP Magazine（华盛顿邮报杂志）我却是每期必看。里面的文章或洋洒或凝练，其中更不乏给出近期城中的各大活动资讯，生活妙方，即姿态高雅又不失平易近人。每期开篇第一章，必是城中一小人物的短访。他们或是某家具店的小老板，或是某裁缝店的老师傅，或者是某医院的接生护士。神学系的大学生转行做木匠，露宿街头的法国学徒奋斗一生终于有了自己的裁缝店，母亲死于难产的菲律宾小镇姑娘决心投身医学，一个个小小人物看似平凡其实特别，勾勒出华府芸芸众生相。谁说在DC只能正襟危坐谈政治？躺下来，慢慢读，一样能发现这座城市的平凡乐趣。

这是这周五（2010-10-08）的封面短访

INTERVIEW BY
AMANDA ABRAMS
阿曼达•埃布兰斯采访

I wanted to get out of Ethiopia to flee the military regime there. It was chaos. I took a scholarship from Russia; the intention was not to stay in Russia but to get out somehow to any Western country. I was a student in Russia for eight years, studying economic planning. From there, I got an invitation from my friend in New York.

我要离开埃塞俄比亚，逃离那一团糟的军事政府。我申请了俄国一笔俄国的奖学金，但目的并不是想要留在俄罗斯而是尽可能的到任何一个西方国家。我在俄国读了八年的经济计划。在那里，我从一个朋友那搞到一封来自纽约的邀请函。

It was a hard time for me in the beginning. I applied for political asylum, but my request was denied after 10 years. I tried to tell the judge tha