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...weeks before embarking on my journey westward, I'd been in the audience at the Fillmore East when Timothy Leary issued his psychedelic rallying cry, "Turn on, tune in, drop out!" Like someone swept away by religious fervor, I heard the call and followed. But after turning on and tuning in, I wasn't sure what to do next, so I set off to find the answer in the place where dropping out was invented...
...also ruled the provinces. That much the Rwandan military discovered in early 1997, when it rolled across the border, hoping to carve out a buffer zone to prevent Hutu militiamen using sanctuaries in the state then known as Zaire for their genocidal campaign against Rwandan Tutsis. As they moved westward, the Rwandans encountered no resistance - the army of the reviled dictator Mobutu Sese Seko had no interest in defending the borders of a state that hadn't paid them for years. Mobutu's kleptocracy had finally reduced Zaire to an empty shell of a state. And that gave the Rwandans...
...polls closed, the Gore campaign shifted its get-out-the-vote resources westward. Gore himself gave a score of television interviews in battleground areas like Philadelphia, Kansas City, Des Moines, Albuquerque and Detroit; he also gave more than 30 radio addresses in western locales...
...dire peals of Intel's Thursday-night bad news - that Q3 earnings would grow only 3 to 5 percent from the company's second-quarter numbers, and not the 6 to 8 percent growth once expected - have been reverberating westward across the globe since Thursday night and giving investors headaches all the way. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, London... and now back to Wall Street, where losses that had been piling up all night - to record volume for electronic-trading networks - came gushing out with the morning bell (NASDAQ falling 194 points in 13 minutes dramatic enough for you?). A very...
...admissions office began sending representatives out on marathon recruitment campaigns. One officer spent months moving westward from Georgia to California, visiting high schools to lure Southerners and Westerners to Harvard. Others went as far as the Alaska and Hawaii territories to bring back students from every part of America...