【正文】 ’s sidewalk hawkers, who, after supposedly being scaled back at the beginning of the modernization drive, still clog the sidewalks, selling absolutely everything—or, as I found during the 48 hours of rain, absolutely everything but umbrellas.“The government was the government of the poor people,” one sardar told me.“Now they shake hands with the capitalists and try to get rid of poor people.”But others in Kolkata believe that rickshaws will simply be confined more strictly to certain neighborhoods, out of the view of World Bank traffic consultants and California investment delegations—or that they will be allowed to die out naturally as they’re supplanted by more modern Bhattacharjee, after all, is not the first high West Bengal official to say that rickshaws would be off the streets of Kolkata in a matter of statements have been made as far back as ban decreed by Bhattacharjee has been delayed by a court case and by a widely held belief that some retraining or social security settlement ought to be offered to rickshaw may also have been delayed by a quiet reluctance to give up something that has been part of the fabric of the city for more than a , a resident told me, “has difficulty letting go.” One day a city official handed me a report from the municipal government laying out options for how rickshaw pullers might be rehabilitated.“Which option has been chosen?” I asked, noting that the report was dated almost exactly a year before my visit.“That hasn’t been decided,” he said.“When will it be decided?”“That hasn’t been decided,” he to the passage, rickshaws are used in Kolkata mainly for the following EXCEPT foreign tourists around the transport to school store supplies and purchases people over short of the following statements best describes the rickshaw pullers from Bihar? e from a relatively poor are provided with decent living standards are very low in are often caught by policemen in the “For someone without land or education, that still beats trying to make a living in Bihar”(4 paragraph)means that even so, poor prefer to work and live in poor from Bihar fare better than back poor never try to make a living in poor never seem to resent their life in can infer from the passage that some educated and politically aware people mixed feelings towards support the ban on for humanitarian actions fro rickshaw quiet on the issue of banning of the following statements conveys the author’s sense of humor? A.“?not the poor but people who are just a notch above the poor.”(2 paragraph)B.“?,.which sounds like a pretty good deal until you’ve visited a dera.”(4 paragraph), a resident told me, “ has difficulty letting go.”(7 paragraph).D.“?or, as I found during the 48 hours of rain, absolutely everything but umbrellas.”(6 paragraph) dialogue between the author and the city official at the end of the passage seems to suggest uncertainty of the court’s inefficiency of the municipal difficulty of finding a good slowness in processing B Depending on whom you believe, the average American will, over a lifetime, wait in lines for two years(says National Public Radio)or five years(according to customerloyalty experts).The crucial word is average, as wealthy Americans routinely avoid lines the most democratic of institutions, lines are rapidly being the exclusive province of suckers(people who still believe in and practice waiting in lines).Poor suckers, resemble France before the Revolution: firstclass passengers enjoy “233。lite” security lines and priority boarding, and disembark before the unwashed in coach, held at bay by a flight attendant, are allowed to foul the amusement parks, too, you can now buy your way out of summer I haplessly watched kids use a $52 Gold Flash Pass to jump the lines at Six Flags New England, and similar systems are in use in most major American theme parks, from Universal Orlando to Walt Disney World, where the haves get to watch the havemores breeze past on their way to their Pass teaches children a valuable lesson in realworld economics: that the rich are more important than you, especially when it es to NBA player once said to me, with a bemused chuckle of disbelief, that when playing in Canadaget this“we have to wait in the same customs line as everybody else.”Almost every line can be breached for a several this summer, early arrivers among the early adopters waiting to buy iPhones offered to sell their spots in the Craigslist, prospective iPhone purchasers offered to pay “waiters” or “placeholders” to wait in line for them outside Apple , some semipopulist politicians have seen the value of sortof waiting in lines with the ordinary summer Philadelphia mayor John Street waited outside an ATamp。T store from 3:30 11:30 a standin from his office literally stood in for the mayor while he conducted official billionaire New York mayor Michael Bloomberg often waits for the subway with his fellow citizens, though he39。s first driven by motorcade past the stop nearest his house to a station 22 blocks away, where the wait, or at least the ride, is early as elementary school, we39。re told that jumping the line is an unethical act, which is why so many have framed the immigration debate as a kind of fundamental sin of the school lunch Senator Richard Shelby, to cite just one legislator, said amnesty would allow illegal immigrants “to cut in line ahead of millions of people.”Nothing annoys a national lawmaker more than a person who will not wait in line, unless that line is in front of an elevator at the , where Senators and Representatives use private elevators, lest they have to queue with their promising the integrity of the line is not just antidemocratic, it39。s was something about the orderly boarding of Noah39。s Ark, two by two, that seemed to restore not just civilization but civility during the Great civil was your last flight? 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