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Walking through downtown Reykjavík on a November night is a little like being trapped in a snow globe that's packed away in the world's attic. The gray sky hangs low, dusting the houses in white soundproofing. The narrow streets, glazed by the orange glow of streetlamps, are invariably empty. In the 2000 film 101 Reykjavík, the film's narrator puts it this way: "Reykjavík is like some kind of Siberia in the winter. Even the ghosts are bored here...
...lunar year, but at the Banyan Tree Phuket they are celebrated every night - by making wishes and floating candles down the lagoon (a practice during Loy Krathong), or by writing a wish on paper, tying it to a giant lantern and watching it go up into the starlit sky (as the Thais do during Comb Loy). You'll head back to your villa afterward to find that the staff haven't left chocolates on the bed - which would be rather infra dig, one suspects, for a place like the Banyan Tree - but silk pajamas. The next morning holds nothing more...
...McCain's opportunities for high jinks were severely limited when he was shot out of the sky, beaten by a Vietnamese mob, then transported to a prison camp for 5 1/2 years of hell. The fact of his captivity is common knowledge, but the pain he endured and the defiance with which he endured it are not so well understood. "The first time I saw him, I thought he'd be dead by morning," recalls his cellmate, retired Air Force Colonel George (Bud) Day. "He'd been beaten, bayoneted and starved. He weighed maybe 95 lb. He just willed himself...
...Consider the beginning: In the United Colonies of America, a high-school brass band bleats out The Star Spangled Banner as the nation's flag is raised, hundreds of red, white and blue balloons are released into the sky and a smiling onlooker waves a flag with a swastika emblazoned on it. The White House is now in Moscow, the President's "summer palace" in Peking. The Congress and the press are snugly in the Commander in Chief's pocket. We might be, not in the year 2000, but in autumn 2002, when official opposition to the impending Iraq invasion...
...plane hit the ground, splitting in two and sending flames and smoke up into the sky, and a few survivors to the dusty ground. Rescue workers describe the scene as horrific. According to one who was leaving the airport yesterday evening, his boots covered in soot, "It was like a scene from hell. Bodies were everywhere...