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...President had looked forward to returning to one of the few international cities where he has a back-story. He took a train to Shanhai with his mother 26 years ago when his father was the U.S. representative to China. But as his custom limousine fitted with blue Chinese license plates zoomed over elevated highways illuminated in a lavender blacklight, he marveled at the transformation. Shanghai looks like it was created by 23rd century machines with blaring neon skyscrapers rising up in all directions bathed in bright lights and crowned by clotted spikes and crowns. They look more like space...
...said National Security Adviser Condi Rice speaking with reporters after the Putin meeting, "because you know when the President is ready to go, the President is ready to go." With Bush gone, that meant the end of the security sweeps. Loaded down with thin blue plastic bags of custom made clothing, antique paintings and embroidered pillows they had picked up in moments they weren't tracking the president, reporters were spared the two hour security search that had been scheduled before departure. We boarded our plane without even a sideways glance from security officials. As we did, news reached...
...hopes of gaining American backing. And last month he sent an envoy to Rome to pay respects to the aged, deposed Afghan King, Mohammed Zahir Shah, whom the U.S. has tapped as a symbolic rallying figure for post-Taliban Afghanistan. But if Shirzai is following the age-old Afghan custom of building bridges, he is also following its equally venerable tradition of nursing grudges. His clan is part of the Pashtun ethnic group, which, with 40% of the population, is Afghanistan's biggest. Shirzai is wary of the forces of the Northern Alliance, who are mostly Tajiks...
...hopes of gaining American backing. And last month he sent an envoy to Rome to pay respects to the aged, deposed Afghan King, Mohammed Zahir Shah, whom the U.S. has tapped as a symbolic rallying figure for post-Taliban Afghanistan. But if Shirzai is following the age-old Afghan custom of building bridges, he is also following its equally venerable tradition of nursing grudges. His clan is part of the Pashtun ethnic group, which, with 40% of the population, is Afghanistan's biggest. Shirzai is wary of the forces of the Northern Alliance, who are mostly Tajiks...
...Barbie-doll proportions. They have shirked marriage, preferring to live together, and spend half the year abroad in exotic locales like Monaco and Bermuda. They dress in Ungaro if they dress at all. Kyoko never goes out without her 24-carat diamond ring; Mika has her G-cup bras custom-made (they won't confirm or deny plastic surgery). "To Japanese, we are like anim? characters," Kyoko sighs over a five-course dinner in a private room at their favorite Tokyo restaurant. Mika nods. (By Mika's estimate, her older sibling does 90% of the talking.) "We look unreal," Kyoko...