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Friday, May 27, 2011

A Pond That's Narrower Than A Channel

It's hard to know where New York ends and London begins, says Roger Cohen. For him, NY and London are the only global cities, with the complete range from science and medicine through finance to the arts, dizzyingly open to the world, confident of their brilliance, with no historical complexes. Well, there are the emerging Mumbay and Shanghai and São Paulo, of course, but they are still adolescents. Young and restless, so to speak.

And the way New York and London are says volumes about the Anglo-American continuum: the Channel is still much wider than the Atlantic.

You should read Roger Cohen's column from today's NY Times:



(Now, Mr.Cohen can say anything: for me, Paris remains the finest place).

(Zoon Politikon)

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