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...Friday night just off South Pulaski Road in 1997, and if it’s Friday night in mid-January that likely means that the gym at Brother Rice is full...
...True, the majority of Iraqis are living in miserable conditions, citizens of an oil-rich nation who have become dependent on government rations of flour, rice, sugar and tea. But thanks to oil-smuggling as well as the gradual easing of United Nations sanctions, Baghdad's markets have not been as well stocked in years. There is a plentiful supply of dates, almonds and desserts, a Ramadan tradition throughout the Arab world...
...boat trip with Condoleezza Rice...
...five hours' sleep for a 7 a.m. meeting and laying out his postelection strategy. "Right off the bat he said we're going to focus on the economy and unfinished business," says an official. Bush instructed the aides--Karen Hughes, Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, chief of staff Andrew Card, communications director Dan Bartlett and strategist Karl Rove--to "tone it down. Let it speak for itself." But the President was smiling. "This," he said, "is a great...
...should prepare for purgatory (but what a luxurious purgatory it is: Customers fidget on purposely distressed leather sofas while they anxiously await admission). All this entrance-intrigue is bathed in the lurid, erotic glow of red lamps clasped in the fangs of ornate snake-candelabra, or coyly veiled in rice paper (wasn’t it Woody Allen who used a red light bulb as a sexual expedient in Annie Hall?). On the far wall hang paintings of frolicking figures in prurient postures, Matissean dancers in revelry. Overhead, Starck-sleek fans of brushed steel revolve with drawing-room languor, conspicuously...