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Following Old Ironsides and the schooner America, the third ship to enter was the Danmark, which flew most of its sails as it entered the harbor. Crew members were standing on the masts high above the deck of the Danish ship as it cruised past awed spectators...
...absorb the city's scalding brew, to let it seep under her skin and flavor her tender flesh. Mouths, nostrils become cultural portals, entry points through which the diesel fumes of a Tata bus, the bite of a roadside fried samosa and the burn of the scorching sun enter one's body and transform one's soul. Here, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary and the magnificent flows from the mundane as the unabashedly deceptive city deflowers virgin foreign flesh with a walk in the park, a ride down the street, a single cup of chai...
...bias isn't clear enough, let me come clean. I am the son of a bread-truck driver who taught me never to enter a restaurant or store in which I couldn't shake the hand of the owner. Only with great pain do I admit that the every place/no place that Moe speaks of--an America built in strips and spurts and without hesitation or nearly enough shame--has one thing going for it. It works. Location, value, convenience--the retail superhighway has got all that. On rare occasions, I suppose, you can even find quality and service there...
...elfin face may not be as visible anymore. Elian and his family will spend the next three weeks in a seaside Havana house, and officials plan to keep international media out of Elian's hometown of Cardenas, ostensibly to let Elian get caught up in school so he can enter second grade in September. But critics in the U.S. warn that the quarantine is meant to deprogram Elian. (If so, he'll be used to it: the private school he attended in Miami, owned by a right-wing Cuban-exile leader, was just as dogmatic.) Last week he used...
With the pols shelved, enter the regular folk whose stories will be used to trumpet the Bush agenda. As one aide-de-Dubya put it, the emphasis is on "nontraditional groups," i.e., "lots of women, lots of minorities." The first night will feature students from the mostly Hispanic KIPP Academy, a Houston charter school that Bush frequently touts. Finally, there's the entertainment. Instead of the usual G.O.P. country-and-western fare, planners have suggested trying to land Ricky Martin or the Backstreet Boys. It sort of makes one long for the Old Kind of Republican...