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Seeing as it was my first time on the West Coast (and my first time west of the Mississippi, for that matter), my first day in town gave the flavor of the city: I got ankle-deep in the Pacific, breathed in the palm trees and the smog, and got stuck in brutal traffic...
...most aggressive protesters against police action in Gaza so far have largely been imports from West Bank settlements. Some of these outsiders now populate an abandoned seafront hotel, which police reckon may be one of the toughest spots to evacuate. The Palm Beach Hotel is a dilapidated, low, white building, surrounded by portable toilets and topped by a camouflaged army guard post. The militant ethos of the hotel squatters has less in common with the prevailing attitudes in the Gaza settlements than it does with the atmosphere in the northern West Bank settlement of Sa-Nur, where military officials believe...
Behind the rows of palm trees, through the dense traffic at the city center, past the yellow bakery and shopping mall, sits a hospital...
...this place, though, right behind the palm trees—constantly growing and changing, even in my absence—there sits a mirrored monument of a reminder...
...house in the Bois de Boulogne, provided by the city of Paris for a nominal rent. They also had a smart converted mill in the French countryside, a luxurious apartment in New York City's Waldorf Towers and lots of accommodating chums to put them up in Florida's Palm Beach...