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A For my overnight in Geneva, I felt a little funny booking myself into the Nash Airport Hotel, mostly because “Nash” is a name I associate with the United States and not Europe, and certainly not Switzerland. My sixth-grade teacher enjoyed reading aloud the works of Ogden Nash, the American poet and humorist. I have visited Nashville, Tennessee, which was named for Francis Nash, a hero of the Revolutionary War. Nash

Three women, covered head-to-toe in jet-black burkhas, are standing on line for Krispy Kreme donuts. I wonder if I am the only observer, here at a ritzy shopping mall in Abu Dhabi, who finds this sight to be noteworthy. The UAE (aka, the United Arab Emirates) has adopted some of the western worldview—corporate capitalism, overarching consumerism, a fast-paced lifestyle—but not its other, arguably less-use