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...sweltering day in New York City, and five teenage boys are selling bottles of Poland Spring water to drivers stopping at a traffic light in Harlem. Business is slow, so the boys--camped out on lawn chairs on the sidewalk--start bantering about fashion. "L-E T-I-G-R-E. Le Tigre!" shouts one of the young entrepreneurs to another as the rest of them look on in disbelief. "Don't you know what...
Shaima is running for her life. Her delicate face peeks out of a black head scarf as she nervously scans the sidewalk outside a Baghdad cafe. A 24-year-old prostitute, Shaima (not her real name) lives in fear of a man who is determined to kill her. The tormentor is her younger brother, who has been delegated by his parents to murder his sister and reclaim the family's honor...
...called Reggie, who had been at the airport since the early afternoon, and he said I should walk along the sidewalk to find him. A minute later I heard a whistle to my left and turned. A car door opened and smoke poured out. He strained to step out and I happened to look across the fence that surrounds the tarmac. The campaign’s charter plane seemed very close in the dark. Reggie pointed out that a good part of the forward fuselage above the windows was covered in brown paper...
Zedros adds that cars would park right in front of the store, where there is now a sidewalk...
Sometimes the ambitions of business heirs fly far beyond anything the founders imagined. When he was rolling penny cigars on a sidewalk in early-1900s Cuba, Teorifio Perez-Carillo could not have dreamed that someday his handiwork would be legendary among Hollywood stars and other aficionados. Or that his son Ernesto would buy the building behind his sidewalk stake and turn it into a tobacco warehouse. Or that his grandson, also named Ernesto, would take over the operation in Miami and become a multimillionaire...