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"...Gopnik, who reported for six years from
Paris for The New Yorker magazine"
"Gopnik has watched in Paris as the two cultures have clashed and says history indicates this campaign faces an uphill struggle with the French. "They can't get over the smiley-ness of Americans. Americans smile at you when they're putting you in handcuffs when they take you off to prison. They see our smiley-ness as kind of false intimacy, a false warmth."
Yeah, right. When I walk through NYC I'm bowled over by all the people smiling at me. What planet is this guy from?
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Warren & Ron, may you rest in Peace.
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