Today around mid-day I was walking by the Hotel des Milles Collines, where normally there are a few newspaper-sellers hanging around who are quite insistent that you buy something. But today, maybe because it was lunch time and the hottest part of the day, they were all sitting passively under a tree rather than chasing around pedestrians. As I walked by on the opposite side of the street one of them suddenly noticed me and began bellowing, "NEEWWWWS!!!! NEEWWWWS!!!!" exactly like this:
And when I looked over, another guy held up a magazine and called out, as if in a footnote, "L'Economist?"
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