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The owner of Puffin Room Gallery expresses his rage over Topshop to Downtown Express: 'I’ve never seen such dumb decadence,' Carl Rosenstein, a Soho gallery owner and political activist, said as he watched the line from his window. 'I wish you could get 100 people to protest the war in Iraq?. It summarizes the complete demise of Soho as a cultural center.'" [Downtown Express]