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...establishment where the Kuomintang had once imprisoned Communists. The black Jeep drove through the main gate, along a drive lined by willow trees, then through another gate. I was undressed, searched, photographed, fingerprinted. ''While you are here, you will be known by a number,'' the man at the entry desk said. ''You'll no longer use your name, not even to the guards. Your number is 1806.'' I was taken out through another gate and into a two-story building where women prisoners were housed. The guard took me to a cell, then pushed the bolt back with a loud...
...Hotel, its entrance fronted by two gilded carriages, we ride an escalator to the amplified sound of jangling coins broadcast through the sound system. I doubt he's really here, but on a floor of slot machines, I ask hotel staff to page Mr. Kim. The woman behind the desk stares at me blankly. "I'm sorry sir," she says. "I can't turn off the music...
Hudson said that the nation’s cultural environment is “toxic,” referring to the prevalence of desk-job careers, Hollywood waifs, and fatty snacks. But it is unclear whether such an environment solely causes binge eating, which is habitual and associated with a “sense of loss of control,” Hudson said...
...President Dick Cheney's policymaking supremacy. Her associates say she is serious about retreating from public life at the end of Bush's term. For someone so devoted to regimen--up at 4:45 a.m. when she is in Washington, she works out, eats breakfast and is at her desk by 6:30--she has struggled to impose discipline on the State Department. She went for months last year without a No. 2, before naming John Negroponte to the job last month. One of her most trusted advisers, Philip Zelikow, left in early January. Many in the foreign-policy community...
...Nunn's broad desk is in a corner of the Dirksen Building, and the Capitol dome looms through one of his picture windows. In the next Congress Nunn will be chairman of the Armed Services Committee. That is no small achievement for a 48-year-old from Perry, Ga. (pop. 9,453). For 16 years the powerful post was held by the patriarch Richard Russell...