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...government that would send my peers to an unjustified conflict overseas,” went one favorite, “does not deserve my participation.” My voir dire would be my bully pulpit, a chance to proclaim my dissent in ringing tones, overheard and applauded by dozens of Manhattanites. Plus, I wanted to get out early and buy cheap earrings from the vendors on Canal Street...
...want to eat the best pickled-tea-leaf salad in Rangoon, possibly in all of Burma, go to Mrs. Greedy's tea shop, a collection of plastic furniture occupying the pavement opposite Sule Pagoda. And if you want to talk without fear of being overheard, do what my Burmese friend Ko Myo did when I met him there one evening: lift up one of Mrs. Greedy's tables and set it down several feet from the nearest customers. Even then you talk in an undertone. It's a reminder that despite Burma's tourist-friendly veneer?how many dictatorships have...
...recourse has been to become a pop culture imposter. Through shows caught at a friend’s house, through tidbits garnered from overheard conversations, and through—God praise it—People magazine, I have cobbled together a false personal television history. I can smile and nod at the appropriate times. I can chuckle at the proper jokes. If I’m feeling really savvy, I can toss in the odd Friends reference. I become, in essence, a laugh track...
...when Tom Brady turned to the camera and announced that Adam Vinatieri?s boot had, just moments before, spurred in him an epiphany and that, hey, he was going to Disney World, all of New England had said as one: ?If Tom?s going, I am too!? Observed and overheard exiting one attraction was a big guy, serious gut situation covered by his blue Pats jersey, all but shouting into his cell-phone, ?Jeezus, I tell ya, sweah ta Gahd, halfa Bahsten?s down heayah...
...taking his own net worth down with it), Abramovich topped the Sunday Times Annual Pay List as Britain's top earner, having made $960 million in 2003. In fact, says his senior aide, "He has cleared $5 billion this year just selling his assets in Russia." Abramovich was recently overheard at a party saying: "I would not find it too hard to make myself love life in Britain." Who could blame him for wanting to try? Last week, Russian authorities announced a tax probe into Sibneft. Then a Moscow court agreed to hear a suit against the Yukos-Sibneft merger...