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...sight once you're inside. The gardens, the ornamental fountains. The minarets, the enormous marble arches. It is big enough, still white enough, as it stands against a clear skyline. The symmetry is perfect. But as soon as this impression passes, the details settle in. Plastic bottles litter the lawns; the canals are dirty; guides offering tours for an inflated price are maddeningly insistent. The colored engravings are chipped and in places have fallen off. In the basement, the graves of the Emperor and his beloved are off limits, the entrance blocked with untidy wire mesh. The inner sanctum smells...
...first sight is awesome. The gardens, the ornamental fountains, the minarets, the enormous marble arches. You won't feel cheated. It is big enough. It is white enough. It stands against a clear skyline. The symmetry is perfect. As your senses recover, however, the brilliance fades. Plastic bottles litter the lawns, the canals are dirty, guides offering tours for an inflated price are maddeningly insistent. The colored engravings are chipped and, in places, have fallen off. The graves in the basement are off-limits, the entrance blocked with untidy wire mesh. The inner sanctum smells of bats and pigeon droppings...
...place they too want to escape. If that's the case, head for Kamalpur train station for a six- or seven-hour train trip to Chittagong and the south coast ($8 first class). Or take the bus and scare yourself silly with the number of wrecks that litter the roadside...
...technology woes plagued Safeguard. Rumsfeld, a onetime G.O.P. Congressman from Illinois, knew it. Even worse, the Soviets were rendering Safeguard useless by putting multiple warheads atop each of their missiles. After three months as Defense Secretary, under orders from Congress, Rumsfeld shut it down. Safeguard's ghostly remains still litter the prairie just south of the Canadian border...
...home he is catnip for the voracious paparazzi. "They follow me everywhere," he says. "They know my car numbers, so they're there whether I'm at the Mandarin Hotel Coffee Shop or at Propaganda (a hip new club). I don't even put my litter outside the house. People try to find things and sell them...