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...salve my pounding head with a shopping spree (and half a bottle of aspirin). I skip the overpriced stores of Shangxiajiu and go to Dongshan district for cheap, brand-name Western garments. I then proceed to go mad, spending $106 on clothes, including a $7 leather "Gucci" wallet the clerk assures me was made in Italy?which must be what they're calling Shenzhen...
Call me a snob, but there's nothing I want to do less when I'm on vacation than look like a tourist with a camera dangling round my neck. I'm a digital guy who never wants to deal with a drugstore clerk smirking at my prints in the back room again. If I encounter something picturesque--say, a grizzly chasing campers in front of a charming waterfall--my dream is to casually pull from my shirt pocket a digital camera cool enough to elicit gasps of awe from the campers and, if possible, from the bear...
...draws support from a backward-looking array of old socialists and nationalists. The leader of the extreme right-wing National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who ranks fourth, was first elected to parliament in 1956. Le Pen is trailed closely in the polls by Arlette Laguiller, a Trotskyite bank clerk on her fifth presidential run. One begins to wonder if Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Helmut Schmidt, James Callaghan and other long-retired statesmen might still be in the running if they had been French. Or whether it is time for a new revolution to bring in a Sixth Republic with...
Imagine your favorite music store is about to reopen after months of legal trouble, and you go in to find it a shadow of its former self. What few CDs it has are chained to the shelves, and the clerk says he's negotiating with the two huge stores on either side to get the rest back. So you try the other stores, where the selection is just as incomplete. You still can't walk out with any music--and you have to keep paying every month just to listen to the few tunes in each store. Meanwhile, there...
Imagine your favorite music store is about to reopen after months of legal trouble, and you go in to find it a shadow of its former self. What few CDs it has are chained to the shelves, and the clerk says he's negotiating with the two huge stores on either side to get the rest back. So you try the other stores, where the selection is just as incomplete. You still can't walk out with any music - and you have to keep paying every month just to listen to the few tunes in each store. Meanwhile, there...