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...CODE 4: Phone Call...
...CODE 7: Lunch/Dinner Break...
There's a reason that Bush's policy director is the least-known member of the senior campaign staff. As the son of a CIA agent who spent nearly three decades "on the operations side" of the espionage business, Bolten has an aversion to publicity wired into his genetic code. Though he knew who his father's employer was, he was told little else--even long after his father retired. "I grew up thinking that dads just didn't talk about what happened at the office," he says...
...Americans don't speak the same language as the people they profess to be converting. Religious travel agencies guide devotees through tricky visa applications and advise them to elude the police by immediately boarding a train after blanketing a town with religious material. Evangelists are taught to speak in code, referring to the Bible as "bread" and God as "the boss." "You can't be too careful," says Joe Deng, who has made some 40 trips to underground churches in China over the past decade. "One wrong move, and you could get dozens of innocent people arrested...
...would. But could any ritual prepare the six shamans--so removed from modernity that Don Nicolas can read the Incan code of knotted cords but speaks no Spanish--for the big city? The Dons call the DC-10 that brought them a "big bird." They don't know how to open a Coke can. As the van enters the Lincoln Tunnel, one of them remarks, "This is the Uccu Pacha"--the Underworld. What will they make of Times Square? Or of the Waldorf-Astoria, where the summit is based...