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After a trying year for Let’s Go Incorporated in which Sept. 11 disrupted the travel industry, a researcher died in a bus crash and a report commissioned by publisher St. Martin’s Press found the student-produced series of budget travel guides to be “out of step” with its market, Let’s Go guides will have a new look when they hit stores this November...
...trouble accepting responsibility for that failure. Angry that his last album, Invincible, sold only 2 million copies in the U.S., Jackson is blaming his record label, Sony, for not promoting the CD with ads on his TV special, among other things. So the dethroned King of Pop rented a bus and, clutching a picture of Sony Music chairman Tommy Mottola sporting demonic horns, led fans to protest outside Sony's Manhattan headquarters, where he called Mottola a racist. A few days later, at a conference to combat racism in the music industry, Jackson charged that "they" had sabotaged his career...
...pace: the captain of the airport ferry is fishing from a large rock while waiting for the next boatload of passengers. Once we are aboard, the local topography takes the stage. Green hills crowned by foggy halos rise from Omura Bay. The ferry lands in Togitsu and a short bus ride brings us south into Nagasaki...
MIDDLE EAST Mass Curfew Fails to Bring Security to Israel Two islamic jihad suicide bombers blew themselves up in a non-Jewish Tel Aviv neighborhood, killing three bystanders and injuring more than 40 others. Earlier, eight people were killed and 20 wounded when an Israeli bus carrying settlers was ambushed by Palestinian gunmen inside the West Bank. The attacks showed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's policy of occupying West Bank towns and imposing a curfew on the Palestinian population has not destroyed the militants' ability to strike. The gunmen, dressed in Israeli military uniform, set off a roadside...
Browsing at my bus stop’s street newsstand, I discovered that they sold almost as much pornography as legitimate newspapers. Billboards that line Nevsky Prospect advertise strip clubs with boustier-clad women with underwear around their ankles. A friend of mine sat down outdoors at a cafe near our university only to discover that inside it turned into a strip club. While the program students were emphatically warned to watch out for pickpockets, most of my female friends have found themselves defending more than their wallets from the wandering hands of male strangers. After one of my classmates...