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...Petite, girlishly slender and wearing a suit of iridescent ink-blue silk, Arroyo, 53, is nearly dwarfed by her phalanx of aides and bodyguards as she strides, with her fashion-model smile, into a vast, wood-paneled living room in MalacaNang. She exudes the haughtiness of someone for whom privilege is a birthright: Gloria grew up literally roaming the corridors of power. Her father Diosdado Macapagal governed the Philippines from 1961-65, and Arroyo reclaimed her old teenage bedroom when she moved back into the palace. Sitting primly on the edge of a sofa, she comes across like a college...
...Another mortician agrees to talk in more detail, but asks to remain anonymous because he's worried that he "might not live to see tomorrow's sunrise." He is a man of imposing girth, dressed in a silk shirt printed with fierce-looking dragons. His office is three flights up a dark, narrow staircase and everything in it?the stuffed tiger, the golden gong?is half concealed by red lighting and a haze of incense smoke. He insists government reforms are being orchestrated by officials with ties to larger funeral companies that want to see firms like his go belly...
...crimes he is alleged to have committed. That is, after all, the usual process for ascertaining guilt and meting out punishment. I cannot avoid the ugly thought that Americans' concept of justice may be dependent on the citizenship of the accused and the color of the victims. DAVID L. SILK Stonington, Conn...
...Timothy McVeigh calls the victims in Oklahoma City, and the people who want to “cure” evil ooh and aah, as if the Middle American murderer is expressing a horrifyingly original thought. But the story of humanity, from the Mongol hordes sacking Silk Road cities and piling up skulls like gumdrops, to Hutus and Tutsis hacking at each other in the Rwandan bush, has always been one of “collateral damage”—of killing people who happen to get in your...
...from the capital Tashkent. (For Khiva, travel first to nearby Urgench). All tourists need a visa, which (except for Americans) requires a letter of invitation from an Uzbek travel agency. Try to avoid the blistering summers and piercing winters. But whatever the season, the spirits of the Silk Road will await...