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...fifteen minutes of fame, the likelihood that the eventual Democratic presidential nominee would be a decorated soldier seemed remote. Indeed, the spectacle of tens of thousands of passionate leftist Democrats cheering someone’s Vietnam service as “noble” seemed a sight about as likely as Dick Cheney attending a MoveOn.org block party. One is tempted to ask people when the Vietnam War became something to brag about, but that is missing the point. When all is said and done John Kerry went to Vietnam, and his experience has provided enough biographical ammunition, if wielded...
...19th century," Marino says. "Later, beautiful huge stones were gathered from all over Japan and brought there. There is a lake and a teahouse on the lake where you can rent tatami and shoji at lunchtime." For the ultimate spiritual experience, Marino loves the sight of the pilgrims--or o-henro-san--in white gowns and large straw hats walking the 1,000-mile pilgrimage of the 88 temples on Shikoku Island, outside Tokyo. "These days, very few people still walk," says Marino. "Most prefer taxis, private cars or buses." That's modern Tokyo. --By Kate Betts
...timetable to restore sovereignty to Iraq, having concluded that the Iraqis would not fall in line behind an American, no matter who he was. Bush knew that Bremer was getting beaten up in the media for the occupation's failings, so when the two went walking outside within sight of the cameras, Bush put his arm around Bremer while photographers took the shot. "Access to power is power in Washington," Bush once told an aide...
...items of stupendous value within arm's reach? In a single gallery there can be canvases worth more, taken together, than a whole fleet of jumbo jets. And while banks can hide their money in vaults, museums, by their very mission, are compelled to put their valuables in plain sight...
...thieves do with it? The very thing that makes some paintings especially valuable--fame--makes them very difficult to fence on the black market. The Scream, an image nearly everybody knows, is not the kind of thing an unscrupulous buyer could hang in his mansion in plain sight. For that matter, it's hard to imagine some Russian kleptocrat or Colombian drug lord lusting to own anything by the gloomy, sepulchral Munch, not so long as there's an Impressionist landscape to be had instead...