Stories Of The Street

As I enter my 3rd year as an expat in Munich, I’m keenly aware of the difference between winter in my previous abode of Los Angeles, and where I now …
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In the early 1900s the phrase “the customer is always right” started to make its appearance. Many credit Gordon Selfridge, founder of the Selfridges department store with coining the term, …
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China. The country that has given us kung pao chicken, Jet Li and “Make America Great Again” baseball caps. For years China has been synonymous with low-cost manufacturing, and a …
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In his song ‘Stories of the Street” the singer/poet Leonard Cohen wrote:

“We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky, And lost among the subway …
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