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The following days offer gentle climbs to passes with views of snow-capped peaks, visits to historic shrines and stays at more inns, some now museums. We buy cheap sushi lunches at small-town supermarkets. Each evening, stone lanterns, which once marked village boundaries, are lit to signal the day...
I don't mean to compare Truman and Graham otherwise. Of course the personalities were different (Truman crisply combative, Graham rather shy, for example). And Kay Graham did not become president of the United States. She just took over a newspaper, and, at that time, not a great one either...
Looking back, Roth sees a pattern to his work: "Ever since Goodbye, Columbus, I've been drawn to depicting the impact of place on American lives. Portnoy's Complaint is very much the raw response to a way of life that was specific to his American place during his childhood...
In 1989 almost a million visitors clambered up the 294 steps and peered out over its vertiginous tilt--about 13 ft. off plumb and growing by an alarming .04 in. to .08 in. a year. Pisa's historic Leaning Tower, experts warned, had leaned too far and could topple at...
That change has been positive. Tourism is rising, the flight of Marseillais has halted, and young, affluent professionals from around the country are moving in. "I have never seen people so enthusiastic about Marseilles," says native Jöel Merle, who manages a real-estate agency on Marseilles' historic Vieux...