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NAME: Maria Lauterbach RANK: Marine Lance Cpl. BASE: Camp Lejeune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

NAME: Megan Touma RANK: Army Specialist BASE: Fort Bragg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...survey was taken by employees in 4,000 hotels in Germany, the U.K., Italy, France, Canada and the U.S. for the French travel website Expedia.fr. The study asked respondents to rank clients by nationality on criteria of general attitude, politeness, tendency to complain, willingness to speak local languages, interest in sampling local cuisine, readiness to spend money, generosity, cleanliness, discretion and elegance. Many replies simply conformed to long-established reputations: Italians, for example, were described as the best-dressed tourists, with the French not far behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most Obnoxious Tourists? The French | 7/4/2008 | See Source »

...citizens vacation in-country - and wind up spoiled by it when they leave. "When they go abroad, French travelers demand the same quality they'd get at home," de Roux says. "Americans, by contrast, demand the same exceptional service they are used to at home, which is why they rank as the loudest, most inclined to complain and among the least polite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most Obnoxious Tourists? The French | 7/4/2008 | See Source »

...their struggle. The essay is in that sense better understood as a part of Twain's significant antiwar oeuvre, a category in which, for example, his essay The War Prayer also belongs. So does Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, in which we discover exactly where great generals rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Past Black and White | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

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