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Yousef Abu Ghannam's family holds the key (and the souvenir concession) for the Mosque of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives; it was a Christian shrine until Saladin took Jerusalem back from the Crusaders. Abu Ghannam reports sadly that business is down. "We used to get 700 to 800 people a day," he says. "Now we're lucky to get 150. People are afraid." The few visitors who brave Jerusalem today encounter a metropolis again edgy and turbulent. In the sanctuary of the city's churches, mosques and synagogues, pilgrims can find momentary tranquillity. But the streets bear...
...they didn't talk about the game. "It was very, very romantic on top of everything else," Jerri said, with faux-"Titanic" music swelling in the background. "I got a tender side too." And when they got back Colby reached into his bag of charm and produced a special souvenir piece of coral for all the campers that had had to stay behind. ("Look, Tina, it's orange, for Tennessee!") Gee, that Colby sure is a super...
...spectators and more than a few resourceful vendors trafficking in Marcos-inspired gear. His demands for better treatment of the nation's Indian population seemed to resonate; his call for Mexico to "stop being an object of shame dressed in the color of money" seemed to go unheeded by souvenir hawkers...
...Mongla's ladyboys in nipple-revealing evening wear. They starred in the official Mongla calendar, too. January showed a dazzling ladyboy swinging in the crook of an elephant's trunk; December had two ladyboys badly superimposed against a New Hampshire autumn. It was by far the cheapest, shoddiest, tackiest souvenir I had ever seen. I bought...
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