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...with alleged ties to the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Moroccan Karim Mehdi, 34, was nabbed in the Charles de Gaulle Airport en route to the island of Réunion. He is said to have told interrogators his mission was to scout tourist targets for an attack similar to the Bali bombing last October, which killed 202 people. The next day, at the same airport, officials arrested German Christian Ganczarski, 36, a Mehdi associate and convert to militant Islam. German police said they have traced numbers found in Ganczarski's address book to radicals tied...
Even the staunchest critics of recent changes say that, in order to maintain its place as the second leading tourist attraction in Boston behind Faneuil Hall Marketplace, the Square must sometimes sacrifice its other qualities as a cultural and recreational destination...
...only way she could get permission to enter the country from the apartheid government was to get a tourist visa, claiming that she was going to visit old friends...
These days Burroughs is finally getting a taste of--and for--a more normal life. "This is something I've never done," he says excitedly. "I'm like a tourist in daily life, and it's riveting!" With Dry in stores and Scissors en route to the big screen, Burroughs is finishing up his next book (working title: Magical Thinking). With all this normality, is he running out of material? "Catastrophes seem to find me," he says. "I grew up in a little town in nowhere, Massachusetts, and one day these men rolled up in a black van and started...
...HILLER, 90, eminent British stage star and Oscar-winning film actress; in London. A regal woman with a rich voice, Hiller was George Bernard Shaw's leading lady, first as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and then, most memorably, in Major Barbara. Her aristocratic bearing served her well as a tourist in Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express and as the elegant widow in the London stage version of Driving Miss Daisy...