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...almost unbearably sweet. The food is superior too: the chef delivers a genteel take on Russian home cooking. For sending e-mails over a cappuccino, or grabbing a bite after a day spent touring the historic timber houses that characterize Irkutsk, Fiesta and its upstairs neighbor are about as tourist-friendly as provincial Russia gets...
...window where Diana keeps her vigil has been pierced by a bullet, and there is another bullet hole in the wall, which she covered with a cabinet and a neat display of picture postcards showing Chicago's tourist attractions. Diana and her sons and the other families of Cabrini-Green live in a cross fire between rival gangs, who have turned the project into an American version of Belfast or Beirut. Constant warfare between gangs like the Disciples, Vice-Lords or King Cobras across such notorious between-building battlefields as "the Blacktop" or "Wild End" have made Cabrini-Green...
...murder has rattled this busy Pacific coast tourist town, and exposed an undercurrent of social tension between locals and foreigners - one that may have been complicated by last November's reelection to the presidency of Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega, Washington's erstwhile cold war nemesis. Like an offshore riptide that goes unnoticed from the town's beaches, the tension is hard to detect from a distance. Still, residents say, it's out there. And it can be dangerous. Just ask Volz, who narrowly avoided being lynched by an angry mob of Nicaraguans after being charged with murder last month...
...Some Americans living in the town are concerned that the mob was a manifestation of festering resentment toward the wealthy expatriates who have, over a few short years, developed San Juan del Sur from a small fishing village into an international tourist destination. Did Mayor Holmann agree? "No," he said. ?You look like a gringo and no one gives you a hard time here...
BUFFALO BILL CODY The showman had wanted to be buried in Wyoming, but six months after his 1917 death, the owner of the Denver Post schemed to bury him at Lookout Mountain, now a tourist attraction...