Word: touristed
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After returning from a trip to South America that was widely characterized as a failure, President George W. Bush tried a new tactic. For his weeklong swing through Asia, he adopted a role that paid dividends for his predecessor--the President as tourist. Bush had always resisted sightseeing, spending just seven minutes touring the Kremlin, for instance. But last week his itinerary bristled with excursions outside official halls. The stops had a theme: he made a series of leisurely visits to religious sites, including a gold-leafed Buddhist temple in Japan and an ancient Korean pagoda. White House officials tell...
...from China, is an image of plainly dressed Chinese on Shanghai's Bund gazing across the river at the buildings in Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they're about to come into focus, maybe they'll fade out completely...
...those, and the smart, witty student says he dreams of acting as the first span in a bridge linking Blois' estranged populations. "The banlieues are as much a part of Blois as the castle," Ouzaanik comments. "One day, I'd like to see our neighborhoods included in the tourist brochures...
...refuse to believe we have no spirit. I love the taste of a late-night super burrito, and the smell of Bartley’s as I walk to class. I love running my hand along the white lines in the Yard, and I love every single Japanese tourist who rubs John Harvard’s foot...
...sidelines: Takako Shimazu, Japanese tourist since yesterday...