Word: sanctum
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...boardroom table that has been set with a fraying yellow tablecloth and dime-store English china. Around him are a dozen officials and cronies, in suits and ties or military fatigues, who are joining his nightly communal meal. Various peace awards are scattered on shelves in Arafat's inner sanctum, looking more like dust collectors than trophies. On the wall are framed pictures of Palestinians who have died fighting and a satellite map of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...naked men exchange a smile and shrug. But their look has its complexities - Bush in, market down, a towel man talking Bolshie in the sanctum...
Tickets to get into the inner sanctum were so hard to come by that people began lining up two days in advance. Ron Hutchings, 20, of Anchorage, Alaska, and Scott Shryack, 20, of Los Angeles, were number two and three in line, having camped outside the courthouse in near-freezing temperatures since 6 am Thursday, subsisting on chips, candy bars and coffee. "We wanted to witness history," Hutchings said. "But did you ever stretch out on cold marble? We didn't get a lot of sleep...
...fictional Harvard graduate in Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow, was a Lampoon editor.) The Lampoon really, really wants secrecy to be the organization's hallmark. Only invited seniors, enterprising Crimson editors and the select few undergraduates who pass the Lampoon's rigorous comp have ever seen the castle's upstairs sanctum...
...apparently headed on a one-way trip to the top of the Democratic party. That was then, of course. Thanks to a series of security lapses at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory - capped by this week's revelation that vital hard drives are missing from the lab's inner sanctum - and his struggle to stabilize gas prices, Richardson, once positioned near the top of the short list of this year's vice-presidential possibilities, is sliding backward down the political slope. And it's unclear if anyone is willing to break his fall...