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...your average locomotive. This is a building that does not so much sit on its street corner as continuously arrive there. On its longer side, it forms sweeping irregular stacks of white and black concrete and darkened glass, all of them resting on a clear-glass lobby. On its narrow end, it shoots those same interlocking volumes out in irregular square planes. Down below, fiber-optic light strips embedded in the pavement glide under the lobby's plate-glass wall and then across the ground floor in diagonals--lines of force that announce the edgy nerve paths of the place...
...marched him across rivers and through forests, until they reached a camp hidden in a narrow gorge on the Nepalese border, hours from the nearest road. They held him there for a week, telling him they wanted a ransom of 3 million rupees ($64,000). But as the days dragged on and the police dragnet tightened, the kidnappers became nervous and dropped their price. Eventually, for the promise of $1,700, half of it as a loan, Salahuddin's abductors left him at an isolated village and fled. "I never paid," he says. "They might come back for their money...
...events, Azahari and another suspect in the Bali blasts were tracked down to a town in southern Sumatra. Alerted that something was wrong when police moved in to arrest a third JI suspect in the same town, Azahari and his companion fled, escaping moments before the police arrived. That narrow miss could have grave consequences. "Commanders like Azahari are the dangerous ones," says a senior regional intelligence official. "If we can get Azahari and maybe seven or eight others like him?cut off the head of the beast?then the ordinary foot soldiers won't be much danger any more...
Clarissa's world is narrow, existing within roughly 10 square blocks of West Los Angeles. Try as she might, she cannot remember the state in which her in-laws live (Georgia). She does not know what the NASDAQ is but understands the anthropological significance of floor seats at a Lakers game. Nevertheless, she proves to be a not only likable but also sympathetic character, particularly after her carefully planned march to the altar ends up throwing her for a financial loop...
...followers in a motorcade of cars and motorbikes on a meet-the-people tour to rally support for her political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). As her convoy weaved down an unlit country road near the hamlet of Depayin in northern Burma, it arrived at a narrow bridge over an irrigation ditch. "It's a choke point," says a Western diplomat, "the perfect place for an ambush...