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...solely dedicated to members of France’s five most elite academies—the first of which was founded in the 17th century by Cardinal Richelieu, and all of which are now grouped under a gilded cupola facing the Seine, ironically just steps away from where noisy tourist masses gather near the Saint Michel fountain.In Paris for the summer just like so many of my American college peers, I found my alibi for being here in a certain senior thesis on French history that remains entirely to be written. Generously funded by Harvard’s Minda...
...hand, and an alliance of Christians and non-Shi'ite Muslims that wants Hizballah disarmed on the other. Lebanese have tried hard to escape the ghosts and hardship of the civil war years, and the reconstruction led by the late Prime Minister Rafic Hariri has reinvigorated the tourist industry. Hizballah's move and Israel's response to it, however, is likely to send thousands of foreign visitors - and their much-needed money - fleeing the country, and could even spark a return to Beirut's dark days of internal strife...
...July, Jordan C. Jones ’07 and Daniel A. Schofield-Bodt ’07—the guides of The Unofficial Hahvahd Tour—arrived at the Out of Town News stand in Harvard Square, where they found a crowd of about 15 would-be tourists standing around an American flag. Just as they had been doing each day at 10 a.m., 12 p.m., and 2 p.m. for more than a month, Jones and Schofield-Bodt headed towards the yard, leading the group that by the end of the 70-minute tour would grow to more...
...appeared a little awkward throughout the tour,” said Jones of the man who “just didn’t look like a tourist.” The man also carried a pricey-looking video camera and recorded the tour diligently...
...space and time. Not so long ago, when family vacations entailed days poking along in slow-moving cars on even slower roads, the journey ranked almost as high as the destination. To relieve the tedium, Dad made regular stops at places that now seem hopelessly quaint - alligator wrestling joints, tourist cabins, and dinosaur-themed miniature golf-courses...