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That's not to say you should avoid the theme parks entirely. They are, after all, the spectacles that make this place unique. After checking in to one of the more grownup hotels--the so-new-it-smells-like-paint Westin Imagine has a barman, Kyle McCann, who does masterly things with flavored vodka--go ahead and submit to Disney World. Skip the main park and head for Animal Kingdom ($75). Cynics will argue, correctly, that the park's Kilimanjaro Safaris are merely rides around a large zoo. But this zoo has no walls, and you see it from...
...Novice Obama's critics tend to paint him two ways - related portraits but subtly different. The first is a picture of an empty suit, a man who reads pretty speeches full of gossamer rhetoric. "Just words," as Senator Hillary Clinton...
...conservative group Accuracy in Media (AIM) is eager to paint the radical picture. In press releases and website articles, AIM calls Davis "Obama's Communist Mentor," although by the time they met, Davis had been out of politics for decades, and "mentor" may exaggerate his role in the young man's life. Still, it's clear that Obama did seek advice from the old man and that what he got was undiluted. "You're not going to college to get educated. You're going there to get trained," Davis once warned Obama. "They'll train you so good...
...stretch out from an abandoned work yard piled with crumbling concrete, twisted metal rods and broken glass. In one corner, a Cold War-era submarine, its giant propeller exposed to the summer winds, is being slowly dismantled by a local crew in flip-flops. The berths are fouled with paint chips and rusted metal, and until a recent scavenging operation, explosives lay on the seabed...
...countries filled Pago Pago's Veterans Memorial Stadium for the July 21 opening, cultural diversity was everywhere on show - from the striking syncopation of Tahitian hula to folksy bamboo-flute-playing Solomon Islanders to the fierce bow-and-arrow dancers of Torres Strait. The stadium bristled with plumage, war paint and woven lava-lavas as the various island delegations (Papua New Guinea sent 170 people) vied for the audience's affections. "There was a highly competitive air," observes Wesley Enoch, artistic director of Australia's delegation, "especially around the dancing. They want to impress - who can be the best...