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...plan. He figured he would cross into North Korea and then try to find a way to Russia, where he would seek some form of diplomatic deportation back to the U.S. and turn himself in. As he made his way toward the border, he tied a white T shirt over the muzzle of his M-14 rifle and traipsed for several hours through the bitter cold, stepping lightly so as not to trip a land mine. Not long after dawn, Jenkins came upon a 3-m-high fence. A North Korean soldier spotted him and alerted his comrades, and they...
Taiwan's President Chen Shui-Bian is a politician who is not afraid to pick a fight, even with China. But last week, at a rally in Taoyuan county for this Saturday's legislative election, Chen was playing peacemaker. Dressed down in a blue shirt open at the collar and a beige vest splashed with party slogans in green Chinese characters, Chen asked the throng of several thousand to give his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) the majority in the legislature that it currently lacks. If he gets it, pledged Chen, he would push to resume talks with Beijing...
...while the money at stake is enormous, the firm’s offices maintain a strictly casual air. Polo shirts and sweaters far outnumber suits and ties, even among the most senior portfolio managers. One afternoon in October, David R. Mittelman, Harvard’s star manager of domestic bonds who earned $25.4 million for his work last fiscal year and $34.1 million the year before that, rocked back in his chair on the trading floor, sporting khaki pants and a short-sleeve, collared shirt...
...racial profiling coin. Whatever item I walked out with would serve as a symbolic reminder of having been in a different place, and of the ways in which my daily American life is distinctive. One of those ways, of course, is the difference between casually sniffing a shirt picked up at a colorful outdoor market, and examining myself from all angles in a three-way mirror at the mall...
What are you wearing? Prada tie, Energie jeans, Puma sneakers, a Guess shirt, a Top Man’s undershirt and Ray Ban sunglasses...