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...advertising worker taking a cigarette break beneath a campaign billboard for Alan Leong. In Mongkok, on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong harbor-and one of the most densely populated tracts of land on the planet-Rex Lau, 37, who is working in a bicycle-repair shop, echoes the sentiment. "Donald Tsang is doing okay," he allows. But then he adds a rider. "But he basically listens to what people in China want. It's like you have a say, but you don't really...
...Peters, who had moved his personal life from California to Vermont, decided that "it was silly to have a company in Cincinnati that wasn't doing the things I was interested in doing." He divorced it, took a few clients and set up a new "transformational consulting" shop in Boston...
...dismissals than its spokesmen had previously acknowledged. In 2005, Miers--whom Bush would later fail, calamitously, to promote to the Supreme Court--suggested firing all 93 U.S. Attorneys. Deemed impractical, that idea was replaced by the more modest hit list of eight. "Circulate it to Karl's shop," read one DOJ missive...
...days after their race, says his base receives a ship just about every day this time of year. Data from this research outpost (operated, at the time, by the British) helped scientists discover the hole in the ozone layer. Today, Vernadsky also boasts the planet's southernmost souvenir shop, a postcard service, and a well-stocked bar with a billiards table and some thumping Ricky Martin. And why not? How many chances does a person get to buy a drink on every continent...
...heard of the film until that morning when a screed about it came on the radio, so I was able to nod darkly with the rest of the shoppers, savoring a moment of public accord so rare in Tehran. Everywhere else I went, from the dentist to the flower shop, Iranians buzzed with resentment at the film's depictions of Persians, adamant that the movie was secretly funded by the U.S. government to prepare Americans for going to war against Iran. "Otherwise why now, if not to turn their people against us?" demanded an elderly lady buying tuberoses. "Yes, truly...