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...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...
Ariel Sharon's fourth meeting with the President Bush in the past year was a reminder of how dramatically the diplomatic tides have shifted. The most frequent visitor to the Clinton White House had been Sharon's archenemy, Yasser Arafat - and the Palestinian leader has been nowhere near George Bush's Washington. But despite his absence, it was Arafat who dominated much of Thursday's discussion at the White House...
...make a trip so far up-country pay, had hired a minivan: Pim describes how her first day in captivity was spent driving from village to village as the man picked up a total of 12 girls. Bribing his way past the many Burmese road checkpoints and buying forged visitor papers allowing the girls to work in Mae Sai proved to be routine. The rebel threat and drug running give even honest Burmese security forces in the area other priorities...
...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...
...session. And then it's back to the hospital for another long evening. "When there are people here, I must try and appear to be happy," he says through a cloud of Lucky Strike smoke. "But, of course, I'm depressed." After his lawyers have left, after the last visitor has excused himself for the evening, Estrada is finally alone. And then, he says, he doesn't have to try to appear happy...