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...leader, but a veteran forced to make tough choices about big questions on the economy and Iraq, and to spend close to a decade in office living with the consequences of those choices. Then picture that leader strolling, unannounced and without a visible security detail, into a suburban supermarket in the dying hours of a Friday afternoon, as shoppers, carts piled high, push toward the checkout with the determination of candidates converging on undecided voters. He stands between them and their escape to the weekend, hand outstretched. Eggs and curses: that's the welcome most such leaders could expect...
...what to expect across the Atlantic Ocean. Once in the United States, Dau had trouble adjusting to a completely different way of life. Sometimes, he said, that “culture shock” took a comical turn. When a Catholic charity group in Syracuse brought Dau to a supermarket, he was puzzled by the green salads on display. “Why do they have this grass here?” he remembered asking. “There are no cows.” Once resettled in Syracuse, Dau worked several low-paying jobs for companies such as McDonald?...
...planning accelerated distribution for his line, with more stores in a year's time opening in such cities as Tokyo, Milan, Paris and Dubai--a response to the increased desire for luxurious menswear. "When I was growing up in Texas, you couldn't buy arugula in the supermarket. Now you can buy it everywhere," he says. "The more you learn about things like functional buttonholes, the more you want them...
Walk to the grocery store. Living a10-min. walk from a supermarket, I make the trip three or four times a week, taking home a bag weighing about 10 lbs. I can eat all that food without getting...
...differences between Kurdistan and Iraq proper have become even more dramatic. The plains around Arbil--once a glaring semidesert wasteland--are exploding with luxury housing developments. They have names like British Village, which resembles a gated California suburb, and Dream City, which supposedly will have its own conference center, supermarket and American-style school. The Turkish developers of Naz City, a high-rise condominium complex, are trying to sell house-proud Kurds on modern apartment living. An American company wants to build Iraq's first ski resort in the mountains near the Turkish and Iranian borders. While citizens in Baghdad...