Word: hostel
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...CONVICTED. Robert Long, 38, itinerant Australian fruit picker, on charges of arson and murder for starting the June 2000 fire that killed 15 at a Queensland backpackers' hostel; in Brisbane. Long is likely to face life in prison for setting the blaze in the town of Childers that claimed the lives of four Australians, six Britons, two Dutch, one Irish, one Japanese and a South Korean. DIED. Raffaele Ciriello, 42, veteran Italian war photographer, after being shot six times in the abdomen and chest, apparently by Israeli troops while in the West Bank, becoming the first foreign journalist killed there...
Despite his vacation, Griffin was able to make a special trans-continental appearance for PBHA cabinet members this past weekend at their annual retreat, held this year at a hostel in Harvard, Mass. As part of “skits and giggles night” at the retreat, a bold Griffin fan donned a creative interpretation of his signature ample head of wavy white hair and hammed it up as Steve. This happens at most retreats, says PBHA President Laura E. Clancy ’02-’03. “Steve is one point of reference...
Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St., is the cheapest, party-hardiest hostel around. The friendly, eccentric owner is willing to chat with any traveler, because he is a pedophile. Rock-climbing tours leave every day from the main desk at 9am. The premises are generally safe, but watch for the occasional pickpocket or questionably legitimate Third World head of state spending half of his or their annual budget to bring a giant entourage to the neighboring William “John F.” Kennedy School of Government. (864-1200; fax 864-5715; $25 for dorms, $35 for singles; prices...
...airy. As poetry it makes for merely curious comix. More satisfying are the longer, unmistakably autobiographical narratives about Abe's travels through Finland, Sweden and Greece. Dakin picks out the details of travel - the sprig of herbs served with the meal or the yellow leaves blowing by the hostel window - and evokes the heightened state of awareness that always accompanies going to new places...
...childhood pets. Ultimately, they responded to people too. "Testimony therapy" also helped exorcise some of the ghosts as doctors listened for the first time to the inmates recounting the horrors of the camps. Within a year, Barak had been able to send 26 of his patients to a new hostel at Shaar Menashe, built to specialize in these kinds of socializing therapies. Last year, two more hostels opened, clearing almost 250 Holocaust survivors out of the mental hospitals...