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...dozen international brands such as Nike, H&M and Benetton. As in any mall, teenagers stood in atriums under giant skylights, smoked cigarettes and checked each other out. The McDonald's was packed, as were four tapas bars. Seventeen-year-old Leticia Gonzalez said that while she would still hang out in Madrid at night, she thought she would shop here. "There is a better atmosphere than downtown Madrid," she said, "and it's certainly more convenient." Xanadú is only the latest, and largest, manifestation of a phenomenon that has been plaguing small merchants in European cities for more...
...given night, you can hang out there for hours…and spend less than $10 doing it,” Eckhouse said...
...It’s just burgers and beer, a fun place to hang out,” he said...
...usefulness. Polling is not much of a science when only 5% of people contacted by phone--that's the current average--actually agree to answer questions. One wonders if that 5% is a certain type of citizen--a lonely one, perhaps. One wonders about the 19 in 20 who hang up the phone. What do they believe? Focus groups are more reliable, but they are poison to spontaneity. They can tell a candidate a lot about what the public thinks it wants to hear but nothing at all about how to lead. And the public has begun to catch...
...brooding, complex Brown hungers for Blair's job with a Shakespearean avarice; Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith calls their squabbling a "pantomime" that skews government policy to serve their ambitions. But at bottom they both know they must hang together or hang separately. This does not resolve the catch-22 Blair has been facing since the five tests were concocted: if the economics look bad he can't campaign; if he doesn't campaign the poll numbers won't move; if the poll numbers don't move, his allies lose heart and the chances of ever winning a referendum dissolve...