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One criticism focuses on the designer of the book, over whom the publisher's editor (if not Nigel Rees) should have exercised some influence: in a book in which the page numbers are an essential piece of the reference apparatus, they should not be set in the center of the bottom of the page, where they are hard to see when thumbing through, but at the top, as close to the foredge as possible.
KSM claims to have steered the two to San Diego on the basis of his own research, which supposedly included thumbing through a San Diego phone book acquired at a Karachi flea market.
The NYT piece on the day keeps it light, but the WP story keeps hitting current geopolitics, mentioning that as the ceremonies were unfolding, "Saddam Hussein was again thumbing his nose at the United States," and quoting Clinton's reference from the podium to "the vigilance President Bush displayed in dealing with Iraq, [which] as we all know, is required again today."
The second-day backspins: 1) Wei brought his punishment on himself by thumbing his nose at the Chinese government.