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This being rural India, the 9 a.m. bus to Top Station didn't leave until a quarter to 10. In that sweltering interim I had plenty of time to stare at the pane of glass that separated the driver from the passengers. It was adorned with a large, gaudy image of Jesus, and above the messiah's head?just where a halo ought to be?was a sign that read, disappointingly, "No Smoking." A pity. One garners plenty of saintly patience traveling on Indian buses; a few hard drags on a Marlboro Light would be even better...
...Sadly for the Acehnese, GAM's principal strategy will probably be to goad the military into committing the kind of brutal excesses it perpetrated in East Timor. "They know that they can't win, so they will keep trying to embarrass Jakarta and the army," says Neta Pane, author of the 2001 book GAM: Its History and Strength. He adds: "I was told by a top GAM official that they were going to use Viet Cong tactics, taking off their uniforms and mixing with the ordinary village people. And, of course, that feeds into the army's suspicions?they...
...General.) The real-life Cahill was Ireland's most colorful crook. Fat and balding, he had a passion for pigeons, Harley-Davidson motorbikes and two Dublin sisters by whom he fathered nine children. Cahill's gang arrived in Russborough House one night in May 1986; they cut a small pane of glass out of a French window, and entered the house to set off the alarm. They then retreated and hid in the bushes, until the gardaí - as Ireland's policemen are known - had come and gone, believing it was a false alarm. An hour later the thieves went...
...effect for most stores. If the hustle for clothes and culture leaves no time for a sit-down lunch, there are two traditional dishes that are worth a taste from street vendors and caf?s: a giant suppli, a rice-filled croquette with sizzled beef and peas, and a pane e panelle sandwich of lightly fried chick-pea flour with freshly squeezed lemon. Ice cream is consistently good too, and for a local treat order it up in a fresh-baked brioche. But if you really came looking for trouble, and have an afternoon to kill, hop a bus to Corleone...
...almost two years later, Bush needed no help remembering the general's name. Behind a huge pane of bulletproof glass that Secret Service agents had wheeled in front of the window of the presidential suite at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City, Bush was finally sitting down for his first face-to-face meeting with Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf. "You were in an extraordinarily difficult position," Bush told him, describing his guest's decision to join the anti-Taliban coalition a month before. "And you made the right choice." Musharraf, however, wanted something in return, something that would...