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...very front car was a large window, tilted slightly outward. I leaned my forehead against it and the train started to move. Faster and faster it went until we began to soar through the tunnel, moving so fast that the dim lights shining down from the street began to blur...
...left her behind the counter and got on a train across Paris. Arriving at the city’s largest station, I tried again. “There is nothing I can do, sir,” I heard. “People like you come in here day after day, day after day. And I can only help those with proper identification. You’ll just have to come back with your photo ID next week...
...back on the train headed home, I realized that it wasn’t just glass that had separated me from these attendants. It had been an added impersonal, inconvenient, paper barricade of bureaucracy...
...that I once placed second in my high school’s telemark giant slalom at the Snow Bowl. No, it’s because the Swiss lay it all on the table so meticulously, whether the question is “what time is the train coming?,” “how much is that scone?,” or, “how much Nazi gold do you guys have...
...though he undoubtedly meant what he said, Wen's mea culpa must carry less weight than it would have a few years ago - on previous occasions he has been obliged to ask the people's pardon for everything from the deaths of coal miners and polluted drinking water to train passengers stranded by the authorities' inadequate response to a severe snowstorm. Faced with an ever expanding crisis over poisoned milk products and a string of other recent accidents that left hundreds dead - all directly attributable to administrative negligence or corruption - ordinary Chinese might be excused for asking themselves whether...