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...killed and decapitated Katy Dos Passos, the wife of Wilson's longtime friend John Dos Passos, in one footnote, but stating the same gory fact in three different footnotes seems a bit like overkill. Gore Vidal, however, might be pleased to know that the editors have seen fit to knock four years off his age (he was born in 1925, not 1929). They also have Wilson referring to Ulysses S. Grant's "Personal Memoirs" under the title "Personal Veracity." Did they misread Wilson's notoriously crabby handwriting (the earlier collection quotes it accurately)? Or was it a Freudian slip...
...know of Baan Yandee? "Of course," she replies. "It's the village where Jau Phaendin was born." My wife explains her quest and the woman leads us through a maze of backstreets to a house with a handsome Dai roof, crouched in the shadows of tiled apartment blocks. We knock, and a man named Saengau answers the door with a scowl that fades as Sawitree explains her story. "Come in, come in," he smiles, calling his wife. They were once dancers at the King's palace, Saengau explains, and he is related to Jau Phaendin. "Very sad, very...
...Koreans, who could forget the sight of 40,000 delirious fans jumping up and down in Daejeon Stadium the night their forward Ahn Jung Hwan grabbed a 117th minute Golden Goal to knock Italy out of the World Cup? Or the 100,000 Koreans who, in the spirit of hospitality, served as volunteer supporters for other nations...
...Koreans, who could forget the sight of 40,000 delirious fans jumping up and down in Daejeon Stadium the night their forward Ahn Jung Hwan grabbed a 117th minute Golden Goal to knock Italy out of the World Cup? Or the 100,000 Koreans who, in the spirit of hospitality, served as volunteer supporters for other nations...
...every terrorist attack, security is tightened up and improved," Chepchugov remarks. "But these days you don't need to get a truck bomb into, say, a chemical plant or crash a plane into it. All you need is a group of hackers who get into the computerized control system, knock it out, and trigger a disaster." Michael Vatis - a former head of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, the lead U.S. federal agency for computer crime, cyberterrorism and cyberespionage - agrees. "We have seen a clear decision by terrorist groups like al-Qaeda to focus on critical infrastructures, financial networks...