Shepard Fairey's five-foot tall “Hope” portrait is headed to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, to be hung Inauguration Day.

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Joan Acocella, a Manhattanite herself, answers in Smithsonian why her fellow city dwellers are so often thought to be rude - it’s because they’re smart!

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