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...place that will marry capitalism and cool as effortlessly as New York City or London, the city of Shanghai, truth be told, is not a particularly pleasant place during the summer. It's a steambath, and when the occasional typhoon blows through, it will rain for three days nonstop. Many of the streets simply reek as garbage rots in the oppressive heat. Most people, if they have a choice, try to avoid Shanghai this time of year...
...nonstop witty, a real charmer, but his charm has a teasing, Cheshire-cat quality, as if his whole personality were just a game he plays with other people. "O.K., this is the first interview of the day," he muses out loud. "What kind of mood am I in? Am I going to, like, tell some stories?" After he offers me his assessment of the menu, he fixes me with a quizzical stare. "Do you believe me? Really? Even after reading my book...
...work harder now than you did when you were selling drugs? About the same, actually. Nonstop. Different product, same hustle. There's no such thing as 9 to 5 when you work for yourself...
...Crawford Peace House, in this tiny Texas town some 20 miles south of Waco. Tracy Sivacek, the 40-year-old wife of an Army Apache helicopter pilot, delivers water to Sheehan's busy outpost. Sivacek left behind her husband and disabled five-year-old son on Monday and drove nonstop from Fort Rucker, Alabama to Crawford, pausing only to sleep in a Waffle House parking lot. Her husband served one tour in Iraq and, she says, he has not been handling the adjustment back home well. Despite his reservations, she felt she had to support Sheehan's anti-war protest...
After half a year of nonstop scrutiny and discussion of his leadership, University President Lawrence H. Summers threw a changeup last Friday night...