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Followed down a long corridor, heart pounding. Around a corner, over some brown carpet, into a little office. In the center was a computer terminal, no bigger than a portable TV. Moment of doubt. Everything so modest, so quiet. The terminal clacking casually. Could this contain the scourge of the world's moneybags, the thing that made Prime Ministers age and caused political parties to rise and fall...
...elevator door opened at the sixth floor and the two with bikes wrestled to get them over the vacuum cleaner and into the corridor...
Increasingly dependent on one another, the 7 million residents of either side of the boundary have created a cooperative culture that is neither American nor Mexican. It is a hybrid that has latched on to the strengths of both national heritages. The corridor, observes Journalist Tom Miller in his book On the Border, "is a third country with its own identity . . . Its food, its language, its music are its own. Even its economic development is unique...
...with political violence, it raised fresh concerns about the security of U.S. officials. Edward Doster, 20, a former Maryland racetrack stable boy, showed his dependent's pass at State Department headquarters and was allowed to enter without putting his gym bag through metal detectors. Upon reaching the seventh-floor "corridor of power," he went into a men's room and assembled a rifle from the bag's contents. Then he confronted his mother Carole, 44, a secretary in the office of State Department Counselor Edward Derwinski. After an exchange of words, Doster shot and killed her, then himself. Last month...
...least 40 cameramen and reporters were jammed into the narrow corridor outside the Osaka apartment of Kazuo Nagano, 32. Inside, Nagano, the chief suspect in an alleged fraud that had bilked thousands of Japanese investors of $800 million, waited for what seemed to be his inevitable arrest. Suddenly, two men pushed their way through the crowd and announced to two private security guards, "We've been asked to kill him." When the guards refused to let them inside the apartment, the two men first tried to break open the door; when it did not yield, they smashed a small window...