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...name Sumber Hidangan, tel: (62-22) 423 6638. The same lady has been working as a cashier there for 48 years. After lunch, head over to the Reading Lights bookstore, tel: (62-22) 203 6515, and browse through their collection of used books. You'll mostly find titles in English and they also have a nice gallery upstairs where you can buy the work of local artists...
...fully with the guide, looking, listening, and asking questions. The five young Britons hung back, loudly and boorishly swapping notes about where to get cheap booze and which drinking places had the best happy hours. Last year, at home in New Zealand, I gave a ride to a twentysomething English hitchhiker whose only "travel stories" of his time in Australia and New Zealand were a monotonous succession of boasts about how often and heavily he'd got drunk. His only question about our destination was whether the backpackers' lodge had a bar. Sadly, it seems that the loutish outlook...
...labor in anonymity and take their satisfaction vicariously. The writer gets all the glory. He gets the big bucks. He gets invited to the parties, the openings, the symposia, while the editors toil at their desks turning the writer's random jottings and pretentious stylistic quirks into something resembling English prose. But that's O.K. Editors don't mind. They say, "Have a lovely time at that writers' conference, and we'll have the rewrite done when you get back." ("And your laundry too, you unappreciative bastard," they mumble under their breath...
...took a job teaching English at the U.S. embassy. She woke up well before dawn throughout her life. Now she went into her son's room every day at 4 a.m. to give him English lessons from a U.S. correspondence course. She couldn't afford the élite international school and worried he wasn't challenged enough. After two years at the Catholic school, Obama moved to a state-run elementary school closer to the new house. He was the only foreigner, says Ati Kisjanto, a classmate, but he spoke some Indonesian and made new friends...
...original version of this story contained a quote from Tareq Sammaree that said Shi'ites worshiped people. Sammaree spoke in English, which is not his first language, and garbled his intention, which was to explain that, apart from worshiping God, the Shi'ites also venerate the Imams. The quote has been emended to reflect that...