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The Strange Beauty of the Chinese Politician Who Threw a Tantrum at the Airport
In essence, this is just a video of a man having a nightmarish experience at an airport boarding desk. (He'd had a long breakfast and missed his first flight, then had not heard the call for the second flight, apparently.) But watched through the lens of one of China's state-owned CCTV cameras, what at first seems like an episode of 'Fawlty Towers' on mute, starts to turn into something different—something beautiful. Full story
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Flying American Slobs
I was hanging out in a business-class lounge at JFK airport, waiting for my flight, when I saw two women enter, one American, one Italian. Try to tell me which is which. The first looked relaxed, classy, and very rich. The second woman was wearing Uggs and gray sweatpants. Full story
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