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...dentist whose recollections of wartime internment are so gruesome that Booth endures the drill without novocaine or complaint. He learns how to eat boiled beetles, chew sugarcane stalks, polish ancestral bones on "hungry ghosts" day, and speak rudimentary Cantonese. He spends long afternoons wandering around what was then a quiet city of green hills and mysterious alleys, catching geckos and digging up spent bullets - and, one scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. Watching a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous...
...preferring to stay behind the scenes in roles that carry no title. Although neither brother divulges what they talk about, Kerry aides take it as a given that an idea is far more likely to go over with the candidate if Cam is on board. "He is both a quiet force," says a longtime Kerry strategist, "and a force to be reckoned with." The brothers have been known to speak to each other in French on conference calls when they don't want others to know what they are saying...
LETTER FROM JERUSALEM: A lull in bombing attacks and the big new wall bring a tentative calm to a tormented city. But how long can the quiet last...
Finally content that I have wasted enough natural resources for a night, I abandon the fire and step into the frigid night, where the sky is as crowded as it is quiet. I look for the new constellations I have learned. I take in the extraordinary silence and solitude...
...Members of Congress, especially those in the majority party, do whatever the president wants them to do,” he added. “If he says jump, they jump. If he says be quiet, they—and, sadly, too many in my own party—we remain silent...