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Almost every line can be breached for a price. In several U.S. cities this summer, early arrivers among the early adopters waiting to buy iPhones offered to sell their spots in the epic lines. On Craigslist, prospective iPhone purchasers offered to pay "waiters" or "placeholders" to wait in line for them outside Apple stores...
Inevitably, some semipopulist politicians have seen the value of sort-of waiting in lines with the hoi polloi. This summer Philadelphia mayor John Street waited outside an AT&T store from 3:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. before a stand-in from his office literally stood in for Hizzoner while he conducted official business. And billionaire New York mayor Michael Bloomberg often waits for the subway with his fellow citizens, though he's first driven by motorcade past the stop nearest his house to a station 22 blocks away, where the wait, or at least the ride, is shorter...
...reality producer figured out a way to remove all the bothersome competence from Idol and isolate an extract of 99.44% pure bad karaoke. Enter The Singing Bee on NBC and Fox's knockoff, Don't Forget the Lyrics, the No. 1-- and No. 2--rated new shows of the summer...
Plenty of criticism of the U.S. there. On the other hand, the famous lunch that George W. Bush stood Sarkozy in Kennebunkport, Maine, this summer seems to have been worth it. Sarkozy pledged 150 new French troops for Afghanistan and softened his opposition to Turkey's entry into the European Union, a membership the U.S. favors. And he promised active French diplomacy in Iraq and Lebanon while pledging that France would help prevent the emergence of an Islamist ministate in the Gaza Strip. No U.S. President should ever expect his French counterpart to agree with everything he says...
...sunny day earlier this summer, I took my 8-month-old baby boy Hourmazd for a walk in the foothills of Tehran's Alborz Mountains. Families and young people crowded the tree-lined path ahead, chatting leisurely and snacking on crepes and barbecued corn. As I pushed the stroller along, a policewoman in a black chador blocked my way. She fingered my plain cotton head scarf, pronounced it too thin and directed me toward a parked minibus. It took a full minute for me to realize that she meant to arrest me. "I've been wearing this veil for over...