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...creep through at some point in the future. France is spectacularly good at saying non. Naysayers are often fêted in heroic, Joan-of-Arc terms; when the student demonstrations exploded in March, Paris Match ran a thrilling cover photo of two young people locked in a dance-floor embrace in front of a cordon of riot police. But behind the scenes, more quietly and with no discernible romance, France can and does also say oui. For every rock-throwing protester posing for TV cameras outside the Sorbonne, there is a polished technocrat in an anonymous office patiently pushing...
...thought this was what “the kids” were “cool with.” I replied that yes, it was.And indeed, it is—mostly.Décor first, since it may be Om’s biggest draw: the first floor is beautiful. The bar, backed by a rough-hewn stone wall, is illuminated with amber light. Plasma screens line the walls, streaming iTunes-esque visualizations in matching yellows and reds. One wall in the table area is covered with an ornate Tibetan painting of an intimidating-looking deity stomping on some...
...Preces, which fellows call "the universal prayer of the work" - or the blessing of everyone from the Pope to Virgin Mary to the prelate of Opus Dei. This includes prayers from both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Next came an act of humility - or kissing the floor. A priest then began a reading in which he concluded, "We have to follow the doctrine of our Lord to have success in the world." Then it was time for dinner...
...reply: "I'm ready when you are, buddy." Bock went through a five-second countdown, then punched a red button on his control panel. With a metallic click a locking device opened, and the X-15 dropped silently on a long, fast, powerless glide toward the desert floor...
Bodriganal and I watch the battle from his rooftop. A student with a dyed Owen Wilson cut who lives on the top floor of a three-family building, he'd leaned over his balcony rail to tell me it wasn't safe and that I should come up. Sure enough, minutes later, five protesters sprint around the corner to his street and try to leap a barbed wire fence into an onion garden, quickly followed by 13 Nepalese riot police in full battle gear. One of the fleeing demonstrators, with a student's lanky hair and in a white shirt...