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...store defines itself by its merchandise, and Wal-Mart is no more obligated to carry men's magazines than a women's shoe store is to sell beer and doughnuts. I hope by printing that here, I have copyrighted that idea. And while Wal-Mart sells guns, hunting knives, cigarettes, Wiggles DVDs and other things I wouldn't feel comfortable putting on the shelves in my shoe-beer-and-doughnuts store, its job isn't to be morality police. Wal-Mart's business is not to offend its customers, most of whom are, for reasons that may have...
...Soviet general. Mára reluctantly accepts the commissions, awarded to him thanks to generous lobbying of the Breckas, and what follows is a unique lesson in how to survive an oppressive regime without completely giving in. Mára's self-destructive ways - he breakfasts on beer and cigarettes - and Brecka's cynicism often makes the spectacle hard to watch...
...understand how the government can build something like this without talking to us first," says Lin, who offered us a swig of the rice wine-and-beer concoction he's been guzzling to ward off SARS. "They tricked us," adds Shen Xianchang, the caretaker of the converted building. "Even when they started building the isolation wards, they didn't tell us what they were doing." Now, the damaged building is being guarded by resentful villagers. There's only one quarantined person inside, a man who visited SARS-infected Guangdong province last week but who so far has not displayed...
Press Barren You've heard the old song about the pub with no beer? Well, how about the press club with no hacks? The new Foreign Correspondents Club in Siem Reap, tel: (855-63) 760283, is minimally elegant, fronts a leafy reach of the river, does a mean wood-fired pizza and boasts the coldest gin-and-tonics in town. But, admits manager Benoit Jancloes a trifle sheepishly, it currently doesn't have any actual newshounds among its members. "We're mainly for tourists," he says. Discounts for members of its venerable sibling in Phnom Penh, however, are sure...
With people crowded in a sparsely lit courtyard, and copious amounts of beer and punch flowing Friday seemed like a typical night...