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...world's chip sets and motherboards, and by week's end most of its factories stood silent, awaiting repairs that could take weeks. It will be years, however, before Taiwan fully demolishes the wreckage and rebuilds. For a nation that sits in such a tremor-prone part of the world, that may be just long enough to brace for the next...
Until the summer of 1956, the Chinese had some level of trust in me. Then I had the opportunity to visit India to take part in the Buddha Jayanti ceremony to celebrate the Buddha's birthday. I wanted to visit the sacred land of Buddhism, but the Chinese authorities were against my leaving Tibet. I decided to go anyway. In India, I met many of the country's leaders and freedom fighters. I was very happy. But in one way, I think, that visit spoiled my good relations with China...
...just don't get him," he complained. He was working on the first authorized biography of a sitting President, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Part of Morris' mountainous $3 million advance was already earning interest in the money market. "He seems so vacant, so empty," Morris complained. "Yet he did great things; he was a great President. Maybe as great as Teddy Roosevelt." Edmund had won a Pulitzer for his 1979 biography of the heroic...
...first part of this reminiscence is fictional, although some of the specifics are true. I have never met Edmund Morris. The account of the interview in Sacramento is true, or is at least my best recollection...
...pier in Santa Monica, Calif. What he encountered there was a tiny woman in tan overalls, silver butterfly hair clips and a backpack. But she was, in fact, a cop working with the man who had impersonated the 13-year-old Lolita--special agent Bruce Applin, who is part of the FBI's Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement team. Naughton was arrested and charged with the federal crime of "knowingly traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in sexual acts with a girl..." Naughton, who has lost his job at Infoseek, could not be reached for comment...