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...sell for $10. A billboard campaign will be launched in major cities. Rudas reports successful negotiations with the FAA to encourage the diversion of air traffic from the stadium. Merrill Lynch is providing 56,000 binoculars to those lucky enough to attend. Add to that the usual souvenir paraphernalia: coffee mugs, baseball caps, T shirts. Top of the line: a $250 enamel box (nothing's in it). After the CD and the video are rushed out at the end of August, there will come another version of the program: a clothbound gift edition augmented with more than 100 photos...
...culture," proclaims Hossain, former head of the Federation of Bangladesh Associations of North America. But despite his efforts, non-Bangladeshi Americans have had a fresh stereotype to associate with Hossain's homeland ever since late-night king David Letterman's roving camera strayed into K&L's Rock America souvenir store, hard by his Times Square studio, and discovered Mujibur and Sirajul, painfully good-natured immigrant salesmen whom Letterman's Late Show has transformed into the nation's newest pair of unlikely semistars...
Fans might sneer at that. Oh, they enjoy the onslaught -- catching those souvenir gopher balls, urging the home team on to a nine-run rally in the last at-bat. Yet they suspect that the quality of baseball is declining and that players make too much money at a kid's game...
...Vietnam. Anyone susceptible to the sentimental image of the U.S. and Vietnam as lion and lamb lying down together can be cured by a visit to the war museum in Saigon, where the propaganda about American atrocities is ham-handed and offensive, and where G.I. gear is sold at souvenir stands. A great deal of history stands between the U.S. and Vietnam, as between the U.S. and China. Ideology stands between us too. Communism is dead in both China and Vietnam, but authoritarianism thrives...
...Palm Sunday, and outside the cathedral in Saigon a girl of nine or 10 was selling postcards. These children with their souvenir postcards are everywhere now in the South, tugging at sleeves, beseeching with practiced but adorable smiles, the authorities having become gradually reconciled to such small-scale enterprise. On this particular Sunday, this particular young capitalist was particularly beguiling, and had an advantage: her customer was at loose ends, having missed Palm Sunday services. The cathedral would not open again for hours. At the end of protracted negotiations, she got her asking price, one U.S. dollar, for a package...