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What we encounter when we enter are throngs of confused, hungry people in a logjam in front of the counter. At Noch’s people know to line up on the right side of the pillar and wait for their food on the left. The Wrap basically herds customers into line. At Real Taco there is not yet place to line up. Ordering is sheer pandemonium. Patricio gets the steak quesadilla combo (which includes chips, salsa and a drink), which is nicknamed, for what reason I do not know, the Real Relax ($6.95). I order the 25-ounce chicken...
...down, wait for our food, and discuss the décor. Patricio comments that bright colors and multiple mirrors make the place look like a Discovery Zone. I concur. I comment on the load-bearing pillar in the middle of the dining area that seems to have been decorated with spray-painted pieces of scrap metal. It looks like something exploded at the steel mill. I ask Patricio if this type of decoration is common practice in Mexico. He ignores...
After Sept. 11, America had moral authority and international support as well as military might. If it acts against Iraq without U.N. backing [Special Report, Sept. 16], the U.S. would undermine not just itself but also the central pillar of world order since the last world war. It would polarize the globe into Arab vs. non-Arab while rendering impotent the only organization that might prevent a division that would provide the basis for the next, and final, global conflict. RICHARD THOMAS Bexhill-on-Sea, England
...Asia, the headquarters presides over a wide, leafy boulevard, overshadowing the brick Taiwan presidential offices situated across the street?a building that was once virtually an annex of the party anyway, since a Kuomintang chairman occupied the presidency continuously between 1949 and 2000. The KMT building "is the spiritual pillar of the party," says Chang Che-shen, director-general of the party's Administration and Management Committee...
...Unfortunately for Chang and the KMT, the pillar may rest upon stolen property?and the rightful owners want it back. The KMT's wealth stems from what has become an embarrassment of assets accumulated during the party's 51 years as the island's rulers. While other political groups in Taiwan are, as in most democracies, funded largely through contributions squeezed from citizens and corporations, the KMT controls a small empire of real estate (including the land on which party headquarters sits), companies, investments and other assets estimated a few years ago to be worth more than $17 billion...