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...year-long project that will wrap up this year. Pakistan has a great tourism website. And the country decided to make last year "Destination Pakistan 2007." But there's the rub. Last year was one of the most troubled in Pakistan's history. Terrorist attacks became a weekly?sometimes daily???occurrence. President Pervez Musharraf dismissed the Supreme Court Chief Justice (twice!), triggering massive street protests. Swat Valley, a picturesque tourist spot renowned for its skiing and trout fishing, is now, as my colleague Aryn Baker so vividly described just two months ago, Taliban Central. And to end the year...
...last week. Even as parking-lot operators were putting out potted geraniums to brighten the city's face for visitors, some 425 striking sanitation workers let garbage pile up along the streets. Bus mechanics, too, were on strike, forcing the collapse of local service that carries 200,000 people daily???although some residents claim the system has long been so poor that no one can tell the difference. In all, about 8,400 striking municipal workers (out of 21,700) tried to use the convention as a club to beat the city into granting hefty wage hikes. Young, who came...
Since that far-off day when "Willie" Hearst came to Manhattan his record has been one of astounding success in the field of publishing. He controls at least 25 newspapers, eight magazines, two press syndicates and film newsreels. His papers sell to over 3,000,000 people daily???or nearly 10% of the nation's total population...
...accordance with time honored custom, to Mount Tacoma, on the plea that the latter was the aboriginal name. The rank and file of the people of Tacoma are sincere and honorable?a typical cross section of the genus Americanus. They have been told?and are told daily??? that the Indian name was Mount Tacoma, and they are ready to fight...
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