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...protest stunned the leadership, Falun Gong's list of members terrified it; included were retired Communist Party elders and military officers. So the crackdown, when it finally came three months after the huge demonstration, stretched from the top of the party's ranks to the remotest rice paddy. A nationwide system of collective guilt held police, factory bosses and family members accountable when people around them practiced Falun Gong's slow-motion spiritual exercises. Foreign companies fell in line. Police sentenced more than 10,000 followers to labor camps, and Falun Gong's exiled leaders say they have evidence that...
Once you're en route, however, the country's charms begin revealing themselves. Lower the window and watch as the rickshaws and pollution give way to rice paddies and simple villages. Crossing countless bridges, you're soon deep into a virtual marshland. Ferries ply the many canals and waterways in a constant cycle of to and fro, back and forth. At the mouth of the Karnaphuli river lies Bangladesh's main port. The country's second city, Chittagong has been a center of trade and transport for 2,000 years. Porters lean almost prone as they haul carts piled...
...good buys, as are multicolored sarongs and handwoven scarves. Hotel Sayeman is a pleasant, clean place to stay ($4 to $22 for a double) and serves good breakfasts and dinners. For reservations call (880-341) 3900. Besides typical Bangladeshi fare of curry cooked in mustard oil, dal and rice, the town is famous for its large prawns and offers plenty of other good seafood. If you crave a burger and fries, try the restaurant in the Shaipal Hotel, which overlooks a nine-hole golf course...
...little dose of realism" about the continental mood. But Bush already knew trouble awaited him, so he held a secret prep session on May 31 in the Yellow Oval Room, upstairs at the White House, and invited specialists from across the political spectrum. Sure, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Rice were there, along with a host of lesser Bushies. But none of them did the talking. Instead, five outsiders briefed the President, among them Michael McFaul, a Democrat and a Russia expert and Rice colleague from Stanford; Tom Graham, a Republican think-tanker; and Felix Rohatyn, the New York investment...
...ticket to a clerk behind a chicken-wire grill. The clerk stamped his ticket and Abu Amira jockeyed at another window for the second stamp required for him to collect his meager ration for the month. His battered donkey cart was loaded with enough milk, oil, sugar and rice to last his family of five for a week. A few yards away, a man shoving to get to the clerk in his steamy booth threw a punch before others in the crowd held him back...