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...theme is un-Christian revenge: a mock-up of the head of Longinus, one of the centurions who guarded Christ, is paraded through the streets. Or try spooky Siquijor Island, south of Cebu. Long a center for paganism and magic, the island attracts numerous witches on Good Friday who gather to brew and administer love potions, supposedly most potent on the godless day of Christ's death...
...Easter Sunday at Yuen Long in the New Territories, visitors can watch a day-long traditional festival in honor of Tin Hau, the Taoist goddess of the sea, even though it is 11 days before her birthday. Amid dragon dances and fortune-telling, fishermen from across the city gather to pray for calm waters and heavy nets. Call Grayline Tours...
...bases, the kind of place where honeymooners sit on the beach and watch the submarines surface offshore, the fighter jets buzz overhead. You couldn't pick a worse place to land one of the most highly classified planes the U.S. has ever built, full of secrets about how we gather secrets?if the pilots could manage to land...
Blue Team members, numbering perhaps 40, keep in touch via e-mail and sometimes gather for drinks at the American Tavern on F Street in Washington. Many prefer to operate behind the scenes, relishing their role as insurgents. "It isn't politically correct to be with us," says William Triplett, a congressional staff member who coined the term Blue Team, after the code name that China gives its enemy in war games, and who wrote with Timperlake a book on China's military, Red Dragon Rising. Blue Teamers helped write and promote the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act, a controversial bill...
...will be a sad occasion, but it will come. Dressed in their ceremonial red robes, as many as 135 Roman Catholic Cardinals from around the globe, representing 1 billion followers, will gather deep within the Vatican to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II, one of the longest-serving Pontiffs in history but a mortal being nonetheless. The vote will take place in secret and will be guided, according to church doctrine, by the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Which man the College of Cardinals will smile on no one knows, but there is reason to believe this much...