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...peninsula's capital, Petropavlovsk, founded in 1740 by Danish explorer Vitus Bering?Xfor whom the Bering Sea and Strait are named?Xis a morass of Soviet-style apartment blocks and potholed streets, incongruously framed by a mist-swathed harbor and snowcapped volcanoes. Its few hotels and restaurants are drab. Yet we found a certain eccentric charm in menus featuring "fern salad" and "boiled pieces of paste" for breakfast and "burning mussels with rice" and "cowberry drink" for dinner...
Just as the feds were wrestling with the forger's tale, an unsubstantiated but disturbingly specific report surfaced. According to an FBI intelligence source in the Middle East, terrorists were planning eight diversionary explosions in New York harbor on New Year's Eve, to be followed by one spectacular real attack, probably on the building that houses the U.S. Secret Service office in Manhattan. Tipped off by the FBI, the N.Y.P.D. called the U.S. Coast Guard, which closed the harbor to pleasure craft and scrambled a secretive 100-person Maritime Safety and Security Team from its base in Hampton Roads...
...TIME: I'm not quite sure how the central conflict of you and Daniel Day-Lewis fits into the larger historical event of the Draft Riots of 1863. In most movie epics - "The Birth of a Nation," "Gone With The Wind," even "Pearl Harbor" - the characters have a small but crucial connection with the huge event, the war. Here the Draft Riots happen independently of the antagonism between Amsterdam's gang and Bill's gang, don't they...
...were trying to finally get permission from headquarters to seek a search warrant [to get into the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was indicted last December as a Sept. 11 co-conspirator]. This agent [said to me], "This is going to be just like the inquiry at Pearl Harbor. We are going to have to tell the truth...
...Harbor looks like any other brewpub in the world, the rollicking Tawandaeng Brewery, (66 2) 6781 1146, could be found only in Bangkok. The world's best?and as far as I know, only?Thai-German bar and restaurant, the three-year-old beer hall serves generous pitchers of original microbrews concocted by Bavarian brewmaster Mr. Joken. Besides the rivers of lager, Tawandaeng intoxicates its nightly crowd of Thai professionals with its energetic house band Fong Nam, who play a mix of traditional Thai songs and sugary Western pop. Legendary Thai folk icon Ad Carabao gave a series of concerts...