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Selecting a spot to pose for the picture you see here, John decided on the entrance to the liberal Moscow News. On the sidewalk he encountered a huckster selling an unofficial broadsheet printed in Minsk. The lead article was titled "Raisa Gorbachev: Who Is She? Translation from TIME Magazine." Says Kohan: "He was doing a brisk business at one ruble per copy." Now that's glasnost...
...shattered gin bottle and a dented but full can of varnish were lying on the sidewalk shortly after the incident occurred. In addition, the opaque screen on a window directly above the broken bottle was torn...
Like more than half the traffic lights in Bucharest, this one on the busy corner of Boulevard Nicolae Balcescu is dead. In the freezing fog, sputtering Rumanian-made Dacia sedans are lurching every which way, horns honking. On the sidewalk, pedestrians slog through ankle-deep mud and slush past an armored personnel carrier, guarded by shivering young soldiers fingering the triggers of their Kalishnikov rifles. At a kiosk nearby, 50 customers jostle for the meager pile of Romania Libera newspapers. Two doors away, a line of more than 100 shoppers shuffles toward a butcher's counter offering only hamburger...
...examine another scenario. When walking through the Yard or on the sidewalk, I have had to repeatedly side-step the oncoming shoulders of the people walking towards me. And when I have not done so, I must exclaim, "Excuse me!" in order for my peers to acknowledge that they have bumped into me. This comment seems to spark a revelation: the students suddenly realize they do not own the sidewalk...
...many homeless people are there in America? Who are they? On the night of March 20, the U.S. Census Bureau will try to find out with a nationwide sweep of shelters, public parks, subways and sidewalk heating grates. Enumerators -- the bureaucratic euphemism for headcounters -- have been warned not to search parked cars or Dumpsters and not to enter abandoned buildings; nor may they question people who are sleeping or obviously disoriented...