Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones. Serge Schmemann Read Quote
Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can. Serge Schmemann Read Quote
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. Serge Schmemann Read Quote
There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law. Serge Schmemann Read Quote
Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There’s also the Metro – and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on tires under the Champs-Elysees and beyond. Serge Schmemann Read Quote
What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike. Serge Schmemann Read Quote
Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world. Serge Schmemann Read Quote
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions. Serge Schmemann Read Quote
Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it’s not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York. Serge Schmemann Read Quote