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NOT LOST IN TRANSLATION.(The Talk of the Town)(Mikhail Gorbachev and cheek-kissing )
Publication: The New Yorker Publication Date: 27-OCT-03 Author: Fishman, Boris |
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The effects of globalization notwithstanding, cheek-kissing protocol remains something of a mystery, resolved with regional pique depending on whom you meet and where you go: the Americans do it once, the Europeans twice, and the Brazilians as many times as you'll let them.
The other day at the Pierre Hotel, Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who ended the Cold War, was in...
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