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...when classes resumed this fall, those once filled with hope were in for a “rude awakening,” as one student...
...also recognize the flight attendants' sense of humor--which is to say, a sense of proportion. "I was talking to other flight attendants," Stephenson says, "and one woman said, 'On my flight a passenger got a little snippy.' So things could soon be back to normal: people being their rude selves." --By Richard Corliss. Reported by Jeffrey Ressner...
...trouble begins even before you enter. As authorities have banned fossil-fuel vehicles in the area, visitors must rent battery-driven cars or carts drawn by horses or camels. Despite fixed rates, overcharging is the norm. The drivers are rude, the hiring and negotiating shambolic. Flies swarm the animals and the dung they liberally scatter across the potholed roads. When you reach the entrance to the mausoleum that Emperor Shah Jahan built for his second wife, Queen Mumtaz Mahal, hawkers touting miniature Taj Mahals, bottled water and postcards, add to the chaos. You may shake them...
...source of the greeting, he or she is left to worry that he or she has unwittingly ignored a friend, neighbor, or other well-wisher. Then, the customer usually spins around, peering behind pillars and free-standing display shelves in a last-ditch effort not to appear rude. I can pass countless hours imagining the scene that would result if I were to casually say “Hi, how are you?” over the store loudspeaker, setting every single customer into ballet-like motion...
...have personally enjoyed working with American forces overseas here in Germany, but to my utter bewilderment, I have discovered that most Americans ironically are not interested in the opinions and affairs of other nations. I fear, however, that America's rude awakening may come too late. TAMMY EYOLE Neu-Isenburg, Germany...