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Greetings from Costa Rica

June 15, 2008 12:00 AM

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When Paris does what it does best

By ALAN BEHR Tribune News Service

July 15, 2019 04:00 AM

No one has fully explained why the virtues of urban life collected themselves in one place and offered Paris to the world. That is not to say that the city is without the usual menu of urban problems and some of its own invention. On the day of my most recent arrival, the Yellow Vests were out. I had been warned not to visit on a Saturday, when they would protest and cause mischief for reasons no two of them appeared able to voice in unison. But by this time, like lawyers attending a late party at a conference, they could only cluster in small groups, not quite sure what to do with themselves. Farther on, street repairs snarled traffic and had all but sealed off my favorite shop for gifts of vintage jewelry, on a small street around the back from the Hotel de Ville. And someone was surely on strike somewhere.

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