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...Grand Hotel Villa Igiea was built in the early 1900s as one of Sicily's aristocratic estates. It's a 15-minute taxi ride to central Palermo, but worth the ride - especially if you pay a bit extra to get a room with a terrace overlooking the sea. Salita Belmonte...
...being feted way above his pay-grade. Blix spent Wednesday huddled in the Oval Office with President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other senior administration officials - not exactly commonplace for heads of UN technical committees. (And Blix may be one of the few Oval Office visitors to arrived via taxi from Reagan National Airport.) That was Blix's third visit with the Bush Administration in as many weeks, and he found time in between for consultations in Moscow...
There is a single crank for winding all four windows in the aging taxi I hail at Manas International Airport outside Bishkek. "Russian car" is the only explanation?and the only English?offered by the driver. Welcome to Kyrgyzstan, a country still recuperating from its 70-year stint as part of the U.S.S.R., when it was a top-secret site of weapons tests and uranium mines. Despite emerging as the Central Asian destination most welcoming to independent visitors, Kyrgyzstan remains seldom visited...
...like the most hated man in Bulgaria, especially when you announce new taxes or get into a cab and the driver complains about the taxes he's paying? Veltchev: That's why I have the Ministry's cars, so I don't get into discussions of tax rates with taxi drivers...
...when it comes to food. I was born and raised in Singapore, where a staggering variety of regional and international cuisines steadily court the diner’s attentions; where, already sated with a large lunch, people ravenously discuss what they will devour for dinner that same day; where taxi drivers are polled regularly by newspapers on the best and most elusive hawker stalls island-wide...