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Journalists often depend on the goodwill of strangers. On assignment, Stanley and Nachtwey learned that Pakistani police were preventing foreigners from crossing the border into Afghanistan. Nachtwey began to grow a beard and donned guerrilla garb in order to pass through in a truck with a group of mujahedin. Stanley crawled into a burlap bag and hid among sacks filled with wheat. "On the one hand, I was scared," she recalls. "On the other hand, I felt absurd." On the way back, Stanley rode openly with the rebels, but dressed in a burka, a head-to-toe Muslim garment...
...Taiwanese believed to be one of America's kingpins of drug paraphernalia. They never found Teng, but what they discovered inside the building left them breathless. It was a vast, dungeon- like factory filled with machines for injecting, cooling and grinding plastic. Three Chinese workers in ragged garb glanced at their visitors just once before getting back to the business at hand: running an around-the-clock assembly line capable of producing 2 million crack vials a day, worth an estimated $73 million a year...
...Psalm 50) and "once I was stoned" (St. Paul in II Corinthians 11, speaking of his stoning). Gone as well are some tongue twisters ("you who hew" in Isaiah 22) and ambiguities, like Zechariah 3's "Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed in filthy garments." (Joshua's garb was filthy, not the angel's.) The poetic exclamation "behold" has given way to the prosaic "look." Sex is bluntly called "intercourse...
...chaos of a skirmish, he kills one of his own men. Paralyzed from the chest down, he finds his sex life over before it begins. In horrifying rants, he abuses his parents, his country and himself. This Ron is not a nice person or even, in his hippie garb, a nice-looking one. Moviegoers who expect to find the best of America in Cruise's face will instead discover a haunting mug shot of the nation's Viet Nam nightmare...
...less than two years ago that Benazir Bhutto was written up in a tiny box of the "Class Notes" section as having been "appointed" to the presidency of Pakistan. Months later, "Pinky" Bhutto--as the Quarterly called her--was on the cover of Harvard Magazine in graduation garb, speaking on Pakistan, Islam, and women in politics...