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...office of Gordon Hinckley, the president of the Mormon church, leads through long carpeted corridors with wood-paneled walls and security doors that swing open noiselessly with no visible movement from the guards. It is like walking into a David Lynch movie. In these hushed precincts, groups of gray-haired men in identical black suits pass by, beaming smiles like undertakers. Everyone is scrupulously polite, but as a visitor, one feels that one has been dropped into the middle of a plot, without knowing the beginning...
...snap back to reality as a bus honks and we pass a glaring MP at the newly militarized airport. The plan is to take the next turn-around and swing back to where we started—where hopefully, the car’s owner will be waiting by the curb...
...office of Gordon Hinckley, the president of the Mormon church, leads through long carpeted corridors with wood-paneled walls and security doors that swing open noiselessly with no visible movement from the guards. It is like walking into a David Lynch movie. In these hushed precincts, groups of gray-haired men in identical black suits pass by, beaming smiles like undertakers. Everyone is scrupulously polite, but as a visitor, one feels that one has been dropped into the middle of a plot, without knowing the beginning...
...Hoping to capitalize on the national unity sparked by the September 11th terror attacks, the President continued to promote volunteerism Thursday during a swing through the Southeast. "The way I view this, we are fighting evil. The best way to fight evil is with acts of kindness," Bush told a group of senior citizen volunteers in Florida...
...ethnic Tay farmers in the remote northern province of Bac Can, who both died when he was young. The orphaned Manh soon found a new family in the Communist Party, which he joined at 22. The war between the north and the U.S.-backed south was in full swing, but Manh was sent to school rather than to battle, studying Russian in Hanoi and then forestry in the Soviet Union. When victorious communist troops entered Saigon in 1975, Manh was attending an Elite party training school for future leaders in Bac Can. After first joining the National Assembly...