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...neighborhood, he rose to become a lawyer, a bank CEO and a moderate Rockefeller Republican. He describes himself as a "lunch-pail guy"--albeit one who owns a vineyard in Tuscany and who celebrated his promotion with a Cohiba Esplendido cigar and a $400 bottle of 1963 Taylor port...
...Canaille, Cassis, Opus 200, 1889, is a superb example. The day is fading. The tartans, or lateen-rigged fishing boats, triangular scraps of white sail on the blue, are flocking back to port. The pallid horizon is delicately tinted with pink, lavender, yellow. The foreground, with its purple house and lavender rocks, is already darkening. But the sunset has lit up the prismatic shape of the headland to a blazing orange-yellow, a thrilling and almost transcendent intensity. It is the kind of painting that can absorb any amount of looking, and after 10 minutes with it you can appreciate...
...that reverberates in his hoarse voice, as he leans forward on the edge of a chair in the group's headquarters, a small house at the end of a narrow alley in Poso. Ichsan also denies that his forces are on the offensive. The town, a once thriving fishing port famous for its carving of ebony wood harvested from nearby forests, is now shuttered and virtually deserted but for Laskar fighters. Even police and army troops stay close to their base and travel in groups. Using tense, chopping gestures, Ichsan warns visiting journalists: "If what you report is not fair...
...Where would he go? Well, Pakistan may be a necessary port of call, but he would have wanted to move through it quickly. Countries on the U.S. watch-list such as Somalia, Yemen and the Philippines may be too "hot" for a fish as big as bin Laden. He might be more inclined to go where he's least expected - countries where the government would never dream of offering him sanctuary, but where he may nonetheless have a few powerful friends capable of hiding him. Free advice from an uninformed amateur: If he's not found in Tora Bora...
...until now, that was just how the Americans wanted it. Washington was eager to get the overflight rights and port privileges that come with the NATO declaration but was clearly set on waging the war on terror alone, mostly because doing it with others has proved to be a major hassle in places like Serbia and Kosovo...