Word: apartness
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...campaigning," says an outside adviser to the White House, "and not so good at governing." As long as there is an election on the horizon, they function like a humming machine and their coalition stays in line. But in an environment where that isn't there, they fall apart...
...Jakarta. But Aksara is hoping to do more than effect a revolution in local retailing practices. It also sees itself as being on a cultural mission, importing all the accoutrements of 21st century cool, printed or otherwise, to a city that still regards such things as dizzying novelties. Apart from books, Aksara carries Jakarta's best selection of imported music (iPods adorn the walls, allowing listeners to check out music before buying, and CDs can be sampled at listening stations). It also stocks cameras from cult Russian manufacturer Lomo as well as a range of fashionable giftware and stationery. Aksara...
Heyman insists that things have never got out of hand. "It's like school, so you have people getting closer and people growing apart, but we've never had a fight." And what about puberty, a specter almost as unmentionable as He Who Must Not Be Named? "There are crushes and romances here and there, but nothing to do with the central characters," Heyman says. "I've never caught anyone making out behind one of the backings or anything like that. I'm sure it's probably gone on, but I don't want to know about...
...Aksara is hoping to do more than effect a revolution in local retailing practices. It also sees itself as being on a cultural mission, importing all the accoutrements of 21st century cool, printed or otherwise, to a city that still regards such things as dizzying novelties. Apart from books, Aksara carries Jakarta's best selection of imported music (iPods adorn the walls, allowing listeners to check out music before buying, and CDs can be sampled at listening stations). It also stocks cameras from cult Russian manufacturer, Lomo, as well as a range of fashionable giftware and stationery. Aksara's founder...
...south Delhi, reportedly killed three. "I saw one child, not more than six months old, its body split by the blast," said Paharganj handicrafts store-owner Neeraj Chawla. "And there was a family of shoppers. All dead, a mother and her children, lying on the ground with their arms apart. That's why I'm covered with blood. All the shop-owners rushed to pick them...