Things in George Bush’s life (an old infielder’s glove, the door of a Kuwaiti palace, even a strong resemblance to Bush’s head at a Republican conference) are taken care of from an old bowling alley.
Of course, there is rarely enough space in the old Chimney Hill Bowl for 36 million pages of documents, a million photos, and 40,000 objects. So some of it is crammed into what was once the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant.
One day, it will be the treasury of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum of Texas A.
Uniformed guards patrol the facility. There are closed-circuit TV monitors and complicated electronic detectors along the walls and doors. Some published documents are classified and will remain so for years; It is open only to those who have top secret clearances.
Why couldn’t the Seoul government save them from Saturday’s horrible disaster?
In South Korea, police are often so clever at crowd control that the country’s protest demonstrations look like choreographed events. Tens of thousands of others marched down the roads chanting protest slogans and even picking up trash behind them. Police officers dressed in bright greenish yellow campers walk nearby, guiding protesters and conscientiously diverting traffic. . . .
[T]he officials in Seoul said the spontaneous and disorderly crowd took them by surprise Saturday night. Itaewon every Halloween meets freely in large numbers, without the restrictions or permits necessary to hold large organized events.