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...step a little beyond our secondhand images of the alien. It is, in fact, how we learn about the world and come to terms (and sometimes peace) with it. All the information in the world on our flashing or high-definition screens cannot begin to convey the feel and smell, the human truth, of another culture. And all of us are lucky enough to live at a time when the far corners of the world are more accessible physically than ever before. The minute I got off the plane in Yemen last summer, I could see how everything I thought...
...book, er, gave the opening night speech at BookExpo, at a huge cocktail party thrown by his publisher, Talk Miramax. Hizzoner's book, "Leadership," will be published in October. Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein introduced the former mayor with gusto. "I love reading!" declared Weinstein. "I love the smell of bookstores! I have a day job where people don't read...
...Triangle sign, a dozen or so children clad in gaudy hill-tribe garb jump into everyone's photographs, invited or not, then proffer palms for payment. Refusal is not brooked kindly, and even the most tightfisted succumb under the onslaught of teary eyes, wailing and shirt tugging. "Everyone can smell the tourist dollars," says Miss Pim, owner of the Arabica coffee shop, as she bustles around fixing espressos and cappuccinos. "Once people start making money, everyone wants a piece...
...isolated to Le Pen and his horde, as even Chirac has derisively complained about Paris’ African and Arab immigrants. As the Mayor of Paris, he reportedly grumbled about “the overdose of immigrants,” especially their “noise and smell.” During his tenure as mayor, Chirac continued the unspoken practice of relegating poor whites and immigrants to the suburbs that border the city. Thus, Chirac’s recent landslide victory over Le Pen comes as little hope for ameliorating the very factors that brought a racist a stone?...
...that Norman Mailer will turn 80 in January, you still pause when he puts a hearing aid behind each of those notable ears. "The body is like an old boat in stormy seas," he shrugs. "To stay afloat, you keep throwing ballast overboard. All the senses go--hearing, eyesight, smell...