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Rolling along in a pink tour van across the country she and her husband once ruled under martial law, resplendent in an aquamarine dress, Imelda Marcos explains how she has managed to survive her many ordeals. "Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and naivet?," she says. As she smiles, her cheeks, smoothed and buffed to an eerie luster, become even more impossibly taut. "That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything, perhaps. So I'm glad...
...pranced around a countryside of squalor and misery bedecked in jewels and glamorous gowns, but Marcos insists in the film that she was doing it only for the masses: "When I became First Lady and I would be meeting kings and queens, it would take me an hour to dress up. But when I went to the provinces, it would take me an hour and a half or two. Double the time! Because they need a standard. They need a role model. They need a star?especially in the dark of night ... I had to be a star...
...Municipal authorities in China's big cities are rolling out a variety of measures?some of them seemingly desperate?to try to keep citizens out of the dark. In Beijing, a cheery public relations campaign encourages cool, casual dress, telling yuppies that suits are unnecessary when the temperatures soar. Hotels in Shanghai have been told they must set their thermostats no lower than 26?C, and streetlights have been fitted with energy-saving bulbs. The city of 16 million is even considering seeding clouds on the summer's hottest days to induce cooling rain showers...
...last days, and outwardly at least he leaves as he arrived: cool, calm and collected. Meticulous in dress, he is articulate, strong willed, tireless in his work. Even his harshest critics give Paul Bremer all that. But next week, when he vacates his office at Baghdad's Republican Palace, from which he has essentially run Iraq, Bremer will depart with a diminished reputation. Blame for the failures of the occupation can be spread across the whole spectrum of the U.S. military and political leadership--from the Pentagon planners who ignored warnings of the chaos that would follow "liberation...
...such best-selling essay collections as Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris has engaged readers with tales of his North Carolina family and assorted odd jobs. In his latest book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, he covers everything from attending his brother's wedding to selling drinks at a state fair. TIME's Josh Tyrangiel caught up with him at his Paris home...