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...border post exudes an air of the illicit?a battered desk, a netted bed and a rack of rusting AK-47s cram a one-room shack. The Cambodian guard may ask for a $5 "gift" to expedite the paperwork: refuse only if you have plenty of time. The Lao post is on the opposite bank. The official there will also ask for a tip and may invite you to get drunk but it's best to beg off, as your next halt, Don Khon, is still a 20-minute boat ride away...
...official control in the highlands remains tight, while most people, like Nguyen Van Quyen, merely want to get on with their lives. When he and his wife, Linh, moved to their one-room wooden shack a year ago, just days after they married, they were escaping dismal prospects back home in Ha Tinh province. Here in Dak Lak, he's eager to begin cultivating his leased hectare. "It's hard going, yes, but I knew it would be. I want a good life for my family," he says, pointing to his four-month-old son: a frontier baby who faces...
...Jerri who has to stalk the campground like the walking dead, now fully aware that pretty much everybody hates her except Amber, who after Jerri let her share her shrimp dinner was perfectly willing to pour chocolate all over herself and take her queen out to the sublimation shack in the woods. (I think that's actually one of the outtakes on next Wednesday's inaugural cutting-room-floor special...
...Waller: Well, for example, the digital display indicator was broken. That's a digital screen that shows the sub's executive officer and captain the same sonar picture that the guys in the sonar shack are looking at. Having that screen broken was obviously not helpful. Then, down in the sonar shack, there should have been three or four sonar technicians as well as a supervisor keeping an eye on things. But that day on the Greeneville, there were only two technicians...
...fund-raising problems on Franklin Roosevelt. After all, it was F.D.R. who started the trend toward big-time presidential libraries that has Clinton trying to raise $150 million to build his center in Little Rock, Ark. Before F.D.R., the most your typical President could look forward to was a shack with a plaque. When he left office, he held on to his papers. But F.D.R., who invented the modern presidency, also invented the modern presidential library. In 1939 he bequeathed his papers to the government and donated part of his Hyde Park, N.Y., estate for a library. In 1955, Congress...