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...women scurried across the capital's Place des Alaouites to their mid-morning appointments. At a major intersection a few yards away were contingents of police outfitted with full riot gear and swinging batons at their sides. Pointing to other men in civilian clothes lingering near by, a taxi driver mused aloud, "Undercover officers. They've been here since Saturday, following 'the Troubles...
With hard currency in short supply, black markets are booming. In Marxist Mozambique, drivers of the People's Taxi Service will happily switch off their meters and cruise all day for payment in dollars. No wonder: the black market pays up to 1,000 Mozambican meticais to the dollar, compared with the official exchange rate of 42. "To Africa's sickness, pestilence and disease, add corruption," says Senegal's President Abdou Diouf. "It is endemic to this continent...
Just annoyance: not a single taxi at Kansas City International Airport on Christmas Eve; 75 inmates at the Michigan State Prison in Jackson refusing to leave the mess hall because of cold cells. Yet as families huddled for the holidays, there were also moments of wonder. Jim Johnson, an undertaker in Parshall, N. Dak., was stunned one morning to see his thermometer reading - 56°. "I got the kids up to look at it, because they may never see anything like it again...
More satisfying moments are the unimportant ones where Manchester's presence or feelings are irrelevant--little bits of information, like the fact that Kennedy borrowed taxi-fare from everyone and anyone during his early campaigns, or that he enjoyed (and warped) his books most when reading them in the bathtub. More politically controversial subjects, on the other hand, seem out of place here; Manchester brushes over them in his desire to blame no one. Yes, Kennedy sent troops into the Bay of Pigs, but military advisors had misled him; and he sent more to Vietnam, but planned to recall them...
...American small towns is that this town is located in the heart of Lower Manhattan. Its character derives from its location. In a sense, the neighborhood serves as a pocket of resistance in the city, a sudden green rectangle cut out of the gray slabs, and away from the taxi horns. Yet the park needs the city, too, the way everyone needs strife to feel alive. When Christmas is celebrated here, life is celebrated, the life of a civilization huddled against itself. Nothing is really special about the people of Gramercy Park, other than that they chose Gramercy Park...