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...were still in the train station. As I slept, or attempted to, on hard plastic seats, Susannah stayed awake and listened to the music: “From a Distance,” “Sarah,” “Only You,” “Purple Rain,” “Natural Woman,” “Toy Soldiers.” The list was long and horrible...
...reaction in the train station was more than just a yearning for the comforts of home, where everyone speaks English and buying a train ticket isn’t a journey into purgatory. In part it may have been nostalgia; I hadn’t heard most of those songs in years. They were, after all, the bad songs of past decades...
...their wonderful badness. Now that they are outdated, their awfulness is perhaps even greater than it once was, making them even more wonderfully horrible than today’s pop crop, Spanish or American. Maybe the Spaniards recognize this too, which would explain the playlist at the train station...
...process, Israel and the Palestinians have jumped into the abyss. Israeli tanks and troops were poised to move into Palestinian-controlled villages near Bethlehem late Tuesday, following the incursion earlier in the day into the West Bank town of Jenin, where some 70 Israeli tanks destroyed a Palestinian police station. Israeli forces also seized three houses in the PA-controlled village of Beit Jallah to counter gunfire on an adjacent Israeli neighborhood. And last Friday, following a suicide bombing that killed 15 people in Jerusalem, Israel had seized control of Orient House, the Palestinians' unofficial headquarters in East Jerusalem. Prime...
...large, open-fronted premises that spill onto the sidewalk at 313 Maha Chai next to the Esso gas station, the Thip Samai Restaurant only serves the quintessential national dish phad Thai (fried noodles, tofu, bean sprouts), which it elevates from ordinary vegetarian staple to high art. The house specialty is a $1.35 version that comes wrapped in an omelette. For an extra $1.35, the deluxe sawng kreung comes with shredded green mango, crab, dried squid, and four large, fresh prawns...