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...year. Arrivals reached nearly 400,000 in the first four months of this year, putting the island on track to its 2001 level of more than 1.3 million foreign visitors. Occupancy rates are above half in most hotels, while bars and clubs are throbbing once again amid improved security?the authorities have more than trebled the number of intelligence operatives on the island, added patrols and acquired new policing equipment provided by foreign governments. "Living in fear would mean the terrorists have won, so I refuse to do it," says Theresa Disimone, a hairdresser from Melbourne. The 21-year...
Upon entering, I was greeted only by a generous-sized vestibule housing a bunch of ATM kiosks. Amid the merciless beeping, I couldn’t help but think of what a contender this spot might have been. I imagined puppies tripping over each other in the window of a pet store, the checked red-and-white tablecloths of a little Italian restaurant, the lacquered mahogany walls of a neighborhood pub. For a moment, I even harked back to the buff, headless mannequins in the window of the old Abercrombie, the plastic smiles of the salespeople who always looked like...
...city is where the hope is, together with the links to a global economy. Who would not want to be amid the bright lights of a hub? "There's no money on the farm," a young man from Danang province, Vietnam, told me last month, explaining why he was riding me around Saigon on the back of his motorbike to support the family he never saw. The girls in the local bars, like their counterparts in Manila or Shanghai, might have said the same thing: they would give up security, community and family if it led to a chance...
...Tanzania and Rwanda have offered troops, and the proposed force of 4,000 won't deter attacks unless the soldiers are equipped and paid for by the major powers, are given a mandate to protect civilians and are eventually reinforced by 10,000 additional troops from other nations. Yet amid all the talk of oil embargoes, travel bans and asset freezes, no statesman--not Powell and not Annan--has attempted to rally the money, troops and political cooperation needed for such a force...
...there’s an asshole in the front row.” The Halloween performances of other bands’ entire classic albums, a precedent which bands ranging musically all the way from Guster to Dashboard Confessional, had now picked up on. The glow-stick wars amid the crowd...