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...contrast, the poll finds that the French and Americans are similar in being perceived as critical and rude when they travel - though for different reasons. The same attractions that make France the world's top destination for 92 million foreign visitors each year, says de Roux, also explain why more than 85% of French citizens vacation in-country - and wind up spoiled by it when they leave. "When they go abroad, French travelers demand the same quality they'd get at home," de Roux says. "Americans, by contrast, demand the same exceptional service they are used to at home, which...
Actually, it wasn't like Twain to choose the polite way to say anything. In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he was the authentic voice of American contrarianism, a man born to gore sacred cows and make rude noises in public, somebody whose idea of humanist piety was to say, "All I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse...
Poor St. Louis. Everyone has a tear or two for gritty cities facing hard times - for the Detroits, the Clevelands, the Buffalos - but who spares a thought for the elegant dowager reduced to reusing tea bags? St. Louis was never a rude boomtown. It was the Midwestern city with an Athenian heart, valuing music and philosophy, nurturing a great university, birthing poets and hosting, in one incredible zenith year, both the World's Fair and the Summer Olympics...
...grassroots heroism in the wake of the earthquake was on an epic scale, and perhaps for the first time in the history of this republic, secrecy was replaced by transparency, and bureaucracy was outpaced by efficiency. The blood-stained backpacks amid the debris of collapsed school buildings were a rude reminder to central government that a more intensive crackdown on multilevel corruption is needed. The Chinese people have empowered themselves through their volunteerism and compassion. However, their lives - and livelihoods - will remain shaky until the authorities truly understand that "Each man's death diminishes me, / For I am involved...