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...better sense of the city, hit the streets. Hanoi's pulse beats hardest in the maze-like Old Quarter, a collection of 50 streets and alleys, each named for its primary goods, such as silk on Hang Gai and silver on Hang Bac. Art houses sell communist-era propaganda reproduced on posters, canvas and mugs, and galleries offer stroke-perfect replicas of famous paintings for as little...
...great advantage of Western Europe was savagery and warfare,” Chomsky said when questioned by an undergraduate about why Europe rose to power in the modern era. “People the world over were astonished at the brutality of Western Europe...
...recent years the popularity of international experience has gone up—way up. No doubt, being cosmopolitan has always been fashionable. It seems, however, that an increasingly globalized era is putting even more value on worldly wisdom...
...districts in the picturesque Swat Valley, 100 miles from Pakistan's capital, have been taken over by militants, who have torched music shops, barred girls from going to school, forced women to wear burqas and decreed that men must grow beards. As if to complete the flashback to Taliban-era Afghanistan, the new overlords have even attempted to blow up centuries-old Buddhist monuments...
...coverage of the "beat the b**ch" episode, during which McCain played along with an overzealous questioner who used an obscenity to describe the former first lady, and his debate zinger that contrasted Clinton's earmark support for a Woodstock museum with his own experience in the Woodstock era - "I would have gone, but I was tied up at the time...