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"Il est toujours comme celui à Paris -- ce n'est aucune surprise."

["It's always like that in Paris -- it's no surprise."]

a French tourist's NY1 sound byte with respect to the NYC transit strike

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early [6 am-ish] this morning i was awaken by an enormous amount of buzzing -- i got out of bed in the groggy dazed & confused state of the half-asleep/half-awake wondering whether the city had been invaded by a swarm of gigantic japanese "b" horror movie-sized bees -- peering out of my window i saw three or four helicopters hovering overhead -- a ( Read more... )

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