tropical fruit in war-torn areas brings more jersey-knit than expected

There are many things I love about Barcelona: the Sagrada Familia, their tastier-than-American McDs, the Catalan nationalist, the shopping. My god, the shopping. My little yankee heart did back flips at the sight of a topshop next door to my hotel and damn near exploded when I counted not one, not two, but four Zaras [...]

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Get money get jailed

The now-ubiquitous shoe-hero alleges a severe prison beating as the case reverberates through the Iraqi Parliament.  Meanwhile, the American media jerks itself off laughing about those ungrateful A-Rabs.  Either way, someone’s gettin’ paid.  The previously anonymous “Model 271,” a standard-issue black leather Oxford, is flying off the shelves of its Turkish maker.  Orders have skyrocketed [...]

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Charlie and the Baghdad MTA

Three people were killed and 19 injured in a bomb attack Friday morning in Baghdad.  More than 10,000 Shia loyal to Moktada al-Sadr hanged President Bush in effigy to protest the government’s security agreement with the United States.  And the Baghdad Metro was running on schedule.
The invasion of Iraq and resulting anarchy halted all train [...]

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re: the middle class first ad

A couple things on this, not entirely cohesive but maybe some points in here…
Global poverty is sexy. The One Campaign is sexy. All those celebrity concerts are sexy. Why is this relevant to domestic poverty? Because those African children on the teevee screen behind Bono are innocent. Those homeless [...]

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