The Week (US)

Bad week for:

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Border walls, after border officials discovered yet another secret 600-yard tunnel from Tijuana to San Diego, equipped with rail and ventilatio­n systems, electricit­y, and reinforced walls.

Corporate bullying, after the publisher of the British version of the magazine Vogue warned a 150-year-old pub, The Star Inn at Vogue, to change its name. Pub owner Mark Graham replied with “a categorial NO,” and asked the magazine why it “didn’t seek permission from the villagers of the real Vogue.”

Price gouging, after a coffee bar in Florence was fined 1,000 euros for charging 2 euros for a cup of espresso. Alessandro Sorani, the head of a local business associatio­n, said a fine espresso is hard work, and that the fine “is something that deeply embitters me.”

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