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...number of times a text mentions camels. “The first thing a falsifier, a tourist, an Arab nationalist would do is have a surfeit of camels, caravans of camels, on every page,” writes Jorge Luis Borges in his essay “The Argentine Writer and Tradition.” In what is perhaps the greatest (the only?) assault on the dromedary in prose, Borges goes on to deride the animal as an outrageously artificial exoticism, the employ of those lacking both imagination and a real understanding of their own culture. After all, the most...
...backs of their ghastly cargo remain, along with a host of cultural legacies. And that's Stone Town's main draw: the chance to walk through the past. At one time, this was where Africa met Asia, Europe and America, and it shows. (See TIME's photo-essay "Out of Africa...
...proclamation of the President." President Woodrow Wilson issued the first formal statement of national emergency the following year, on Feb. 5, 1917, in which he forbade American ship owners to sell their vessels to foreigners, arguing that they were needed to fight World War I. (See TIME's photo-essay "Landscapes of the Great...
...Black Sea. Vice President Joe Biden was treated to a twirling, leaping folk-dance spectacular in Tbilisi. More than a few reporters have been granted late-night interviews on Saakashvili's presidential plane, a sleek Bombardier Challenger stocked with cognac and patriotic Georgian music videos. (See TIME's photo-essay "Georgian Spring...
...course, not everyone is charmed. A honking car slows near our table, and when the window rolls down, a teenager shouts, "F___ you!" For just a moment, the former governor looks sheepish. "I thought that was [going to be] a positive one." (See TIME's photo-essay "The Remarkable World of Rod Blagojevich...