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...time to go. At the airport, Wei met briefly with Sasser, who asked the dissident if he was leaving voluntarily and explained that he might never be able to come back. Just before the 10:30 a.m. departure time, Woo Chan Lee, a U.S. embassy employee, strode to the gate not with his wife but with a tired-looking man in a down jacket. Only then was the Northwest crew told about the important passenger they would have on board the flight...
Students with luggage may prefer taking the Undergraduate Council buses, which depart from Johnston Gate every hour on the hour from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m. today, and leave Linnaean Street at the Quad 10 minutes afterwards...
...Washington the emphasis is on perimeter security: more guards, better fences, metal detectors, no-parking zones around key buildings. At the CIA there is a big, new guardhouse outside the gate. The agency has also beefed up what is probably the most effective line of defense, its efforts to gather every sort of intelligence to pinpoint terrorist plots before they can be carried out. The Counter Terrorism Center, run by the CIA and FBI, has been expanded and put on round-the-clock operation...
...course, it's all awful and criminal, what was going on, but apart from the barking-at-the-gate-in-Macbethness of the scene, it is breathtakingly hilarious. If Nixon had understood that the key to his historical resuscitation lay in the hilarity of his corruptedness--his voice, manner, language, his crooked sincerity--he wouldn't have wasted all that time writing books. The advantage in having a funny presidency is that people will always think of it fondly, no matter what they were laughing at. The mere act of laughter is heartwarming, and eventually they recall only that...
...Fowl's Legs" was beyond belief. It sounded as if he had been playing this piece for twice his age. But what made the entire performance of "Pictures" truly great, as good as the golden Benno Moiseiwitsch recording, was his huge sound at "The Great Gate of Kiev." The audience was completely under his spell. And his choice of encore, the Schumann-Liszt "Widmung," sent everyone home smiling...