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...TOKYO The city is in the grip of a vinyl revival, so you'll find it easy to satisfy your wax-cravings here. Head to Udagawa-cho, a five-minute walk from Shibuya train station. The area is crammed with dozens of vinyl stores, ranging from hip-hop specialists like Dance Music Record to purveyors of the unusual such as Yellow Pop, whose stocks include decades-old Japanese Rakugo-spoken-comedy records-and pressings of sporting events...
...miraculously still standing. "I loved Menzies the moment I saw it," says Gormley, 54, who spotted the town and its lake from the air after a week's search for a suitable site. "What's amazing is that, yes, it may be a place that's lost its grip on being a destination. That in a way the trucks just pile through without slowing down. But at the same time, you can go to the graveyard or you can go to the pub, and you can talk to the people and they will tell you why they're there...
Well, first of all, I think we needed a little missionary zeal after 9/11. But the exercise of power in the grip of any obsession is always a risk. There's a difference between having convictions and obsessions. And by the way, I had to fight this; I was almost obsessed with bin Laden for a long time and the record will reflect that...
...marshal's work is his weapon. These agents have the highest standards for marksmanship in the law-enforcement business. I learned that actually firing the gun is almost an afterthought. Much more important were my stance, my breathing, my grip and my focus on the front sight of the gun. If a human target was wearing body armor, I was told to aim at the lower abdomen. "People will bleed out more quickly," my instructor said, "and a moving head can be hard...
...often that a strongman voluntarily loosens his grip on government, but in what one diplomat called an "astonishing" announcement last week, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom of the Maldives appeared to do exactly that. No longer would he run the executive, courts, police, parliament, army and media single-handedly, Gayoom proposed at a constitutional forum he convened in the capital, Mal?. Instead, there would be a Western-style separation of powers, with a Prime Minister, a Supreme Court and a strengthened legislature. Political parties would be allowed to flourish, and human rights would be safeguarded...