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MUMBAI, INDIA—As soon as I entered the salon, I took out my copy of “Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Foundations of Modern Social Thought.” I scanned the first page nervously as I waited for the receptionist to call my name. “Modern social theory first emerged during the period of the ‘great transformation’...” the introduction began...
It’s not hard to find a salon in Mumbai, which is India’s New York and Los Angeles rolled into one. As the receptionist ushered me to a reclining chair, I tried to act as if I knew what was coming next...
...recruit activists and local politicians to the cause. Now he does that from a small office just upstairs from his four-room dispensary, which sits next to a Tattoo parlor and around the corner from a Target store. Two beefy security guards watch the door and a smiling receptionist sits next to a case displaying bongs and other paraphernalia. Inside, patients examine samples in glass cases. Some day, Duncan says, this will be as normal as visiting Walgreens. For now, he's less focused on his inventory than on his group's efforts to supply activists with "raid kits" - protest...
...with an oddly insinuating charm by British comic Russell Brand. Peter attempts to learn surfing, drinks to excess and spies clumsily on the lovers. He has quite a lot on his plate - so much so that he for a long time ignores a very tempting side dish, a hotel receptionist named Rachel (the lovely Mila Kunis), who has dropped out of mainland striving...
When Famile Arslan showed up for her first day of work, the receptionist pointed her toward the broom closet. "'The cleaning supplies are over there,'" Arslan recalls being told. "I had to say, 'No, I'm not the cleaner. I'm the lawyer.'" In fairness to the receptionist, Arslan was making history that morning, as the first attorney to wear a hijab in the Netherlands. Ten years on, she has her own practice in the Hague. Her name's on the door, her cat Hussein pads around and a veiled assistant fields phone calls. "People keep telling me how successful...