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...suit was filed in 1990 by the proprietor of an Israeli youth hostel, Itzik Shaari, after Let's Go's 1989 and 1990 Israel & Egypt edition warned travelers to avoid his hostel because he allegedly sexually harassed three women...
...edition of Let's Go: Israel & Egypt steered readers away from Shaari's International Youth Hostel in Jerusalem, warning, "Women should not stay here, nor should men who don't want toencourage harassment. The manager, Itzik, wasbeing sued on sexual harassment charges by threedifferent women in the summer of 1998...AvoidItzik (short, dark-skinned, smelling heavily ofcologne) at all costs." Shaari sued HSA andpublisher St. Marten's Press for $2 million...
Chatting in a hostel with the usual assortment of international backpackers, Pablo from Mexico began, for some unknown reason, cataloging which nationalities of women he found attractive. He concluded his rather long list by saying, "And of course I like American girls," perhaps as a concession to the Americanas in his company. Charlie from Texas replied, "Well, then you like all kinds of girls." Pablo looked puzzled, not quite understanding Charlie's implication that there is no one "American" girl. Of course we've heard such rhetoric before, but realizing how incomprehensible it is to some people makes it more...
...given a down jacket and a suitcase but had to leave behind most of his books and letters. Meanwhile, security officers picked up Wei's closest relatives--his father, stepmother, elder sister, younger brother and a niece--and drove them to a People's Liberation Army border guards' hostel that was a stone's throw from Beijing International Airport...
...arrived at the hostel in a Jeep Cherokee at 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 16, giving him less than six hours to see his family before he would board the Northwest flight and go into exile, perhaps forever. There was picture taking and excited chatter about family news. Some of the group were worried about how Wei's father, Wei Zilin, 79, would react, since he was once sternly critical of his son's activism. But, says younger son Xiaotao, "the old man controlled himself quite well...