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...writ of the international tribunal does not extend beyond the sidewalk outside its chambers. Like many other international institutions, from the IMF to NATO, the tribunal is a subsidiary of Pax Americana. These institutions are granted more or less formal independence, but absent the U.S., they are powerless...
...taking their cultural cues from myriad psychedelic compass points: Ibiza, Goa, San Francisco. Hopping trains into the city from all over Japan, these teens and twentysomethings flock for the express purpose of flaunting some of the wackiest Mad Hatter outfits east of Fillmore West. They get gussied up in sidewalk dragging, patchwork skirts under military jackets, or blood red, cropped kimonos paired with platforms and body piercings. The kids tote tom-toms, shopping bags, vinyl purses shaped like lips. The kids don't know it, but many of their looks are '60s People's Park through a rave-culture hula...
...controlled businesses, such as real estate and movie-making. More than 75% of the stocks bought on Calcutta's exchange were thought to be financed by unofficial lenders. If bothersome regulators did require documentation, brokers could always use Maya Guha, the professional forger who had a stand on the sidewalk outside of the exchange. Guha was "an institution," one broker recalls fondly. "Everyone knew her and did business with her, too. She was part of the exchange family." In March, Guha was put in prison for forging bank accounts...
...French have long led the war against globalization and American unilateralism. They’re famous for trying to protect their culture, and particularly their language, from outside encroachment. They loathe the fast-food restaurants replacing sidewalk cafes, and they cannot abide the arrogant Americans who can’t seem to call slices of potatoes des frites instead of, ironically, French fries...
...close down? After each answer, interpreters shouted her ASL into speech for the hard-of-hearing who did not sign; others pressed her words tactilely into the hands of the deaf and blind. At one dorm the oversize crowd spilled outside, and Fernandes signed in the halo of a sidewalk light, her audience spread out into the darkness. She went...