Word: rivoli
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...something woman moves swiftly down the Rue de Rivoli, gray hair pulled back, looking like an iconic grandmother or retired grade school teacher. But as she runs a red light and speeds into a crosswalk filled with people, the woman slaloms her large bicycle between startled pedestrians - barking at them to stand clear despite their having the right of way. "Dégagez!" She shouts the order to give way. "Why are people so stupid?" (See pictures of the U.S.'s National Bike Month...
...Indeed, it doesn't take a very long stroll around Paris before an observer will see cyclists like the older Rue de Rivoli bomber running red lights or racing through busy crosswalks in violation of codes. An astonishing number of bike riders also seem to think directional restrictions on one-way streets apply to cars alone. And pedestrians in Paris simply haven't lived until a cyclist tartly demands that they cede passage on sidewalks that bicycles have no right to be on in the first place...
...scary that the U.S. is importing dangerous Chinese products for use by unknowing American consumers. It's even scarier that Georgetown professor Pietra Rivoli thinks that the importing companies should be responsible. That would be the same as putting Congress in charge of your bank account. It is the business of the Federal Government to protect its citizens from dangerous imports. Unfortunately, the current Federal Government will look the other way as citizens die from dangerous products if the Chinese government buys more American stuff. Does that sound like a good trade...
...Commission chairman Nancy Nord. Despite our buying power, the U.S. government simply has very little leverage to impose new restrictions on Chinese goods, in part because it is lobbying China to open up its markets to U.S. goods. "This can't be the Federal Government's responsibility," says Pietra Rivoli, a professor at Georgetown's business school and author of the book The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. Rivoli says U.S. companies that use Chinese factories ought to view the risk of importing a dangerous product just like any other business risk. "It's really...
Encountering a lousy meal in Paris, of all places, is a tragedy--but fortunately, one that is easily avoided. Chef Yannick Alléno is a rising star at the Versailles-like Le Meurice in the Hôtel Meurice (228, Rue de Rivoli). There, relishing dishes like poularde de Bresse stuffed with foie gras (and an amazing cheese cart), I felt as pampered as a Parisian lapdog. At a fraction of the price but still a good value, Chez Paul (13, Rue de Charonne) delivers lace-curtained, cassoulet-slinging bistro fare. Georges, the whimsical Philippe Starck-- designed restaurant atop the Pompidou...