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...ticket line to find that our train was sold out that night and the next two, we spent another two hours waiting just to get information about other possible routes. Theoretically, you didn’t need to stand in line. You took numbers, like at a deli counter, and sat down until yours flashed on the screen. Unfortunately, the paper numbers ran out and the ticket area became chaos...
After another hour in a sort-of line, having shoved a few pushy Italians out of our way, we reached the ticket counter again. There, we faced the yells of a disgruntled employee telling us that we couldn’t buy tickets for international travel now and would have to come back at 7 a.m. the next morning. Never mind that next to us, two other Americans had just bought their tickets to Paris. Exhausted, despondent, without a hostel for the night, and faced with the thought of returning to these same lines in only eight hours, we collapsed...
...move into Palestinian-controlled villages near Bethlehem late Tuesday, following the incursion earlier in the day into the West Bank town of Jenin, where some 70 Israeli tanks destroyed a Palestinian police station. Israeli forces also seized three houses in the PA-controlled village of Beit Jallah to counter gunfire on an adjacent Israeli neighborhood. And last Friday, following a suicide bombing that killed 15 people in Jerusalem, Israel had seized control of Orient House, the Palestinians' unofficial headquarters in East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned Tuesday that these actions were the price of Yasser Arafat's failure...
...attend a co-ed engineering school?he married Pojarmarn Damapong, the daughter of a police general. Along with his new bride, he moved to the United States, enrolling in a doctoral program at Sam Houston State University in Texas. The future Prime Minister earned his tuition working behind the counter of a Kentucky Fried Chicken while his wife baby-sat to make extra money. Their first son was born there, and retains his American citizenship. Thaksin and his wife would have four more children. Upon his return to Thailand, Thaksin embarked on a string of disastrous business endeavors. He joined...
...young men in a foreign locale and expect them to act like saints. Yasutaka Oshiro, a sociology professor at Okinawa International University, has researched the history of the entertainment districts around the U.S. bases. "The zones were created by U.S. officials following World War II," he says, "to counter the problem of U.S. troops raping local women with abandon." Poor, unmarried local girls were corralled into prostitution. The sex market in a town called Koza outside the gates of Kadena Air Force Base roared during the Vietnam War, when thousands of troops bivouacked in Okinawa on their...