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...DIED. SHOSEI KODA, 24, a Japanese tourist in Iraq who was kidnapped by Jordanian militant Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's group; in Baghdad. In a video posted on the Internet, Koda said, "They want the Japanese government and Prime Minister Koizumi to withdraw Japanese troops from Iraq, or they will cut my head." Koizumi rejected the demand...
...students come to Harvard with the intention or even the knowledge of learning in (and being) one of the biggest tourist draws in New England. If the wall of tour buses that lines Massachusetts Avenue on any given Sunday is not enough of an indication of this place’s appeal, one needs only to browse the Boston/Cambridge page on Yahoo!Travel: Harvard is listed as the number-one thing to see in Cambridge. It is also listed under the ‘Castles and Palaces’ category: clearly, not enough Universities make the pages of Yahoo...
...inherent in attending this university, spend extra time on the way to class stopping to avoid interfering with pictures taken in front of University Hall, be distracted by the camera flashes in your peripheral vision as you try to stay awake through a lecture in Sanders Theatre, hear the tourists bargaining with security at the entrance to Widener Library, stare back at the passers-by looking through the open curtains of your suite, or watch as the staff at Annenberg sprints to the hall’s entrance to intercept disobedient and/or ignorant tourists intent on taking pictures of that...
...agency with a mission as important as that of the Department of Homeland Security should be above the base politics of pork-barrel spending. While states like California and Florida stretch about $20 a head to secure their ports, tourist attractions, major cities and so on, the safety of the whole nation is put in jeopardy. Alaska should not be the only place in America where it is possible to feel that the government is doing its best to keep citizens safe...
...found floor plans of schools in six American states on a computer disc in Iraq, which launched a round of newscasters interviewing school superintendents from Florida to Oregon about whether a Beslan-style massacre could happen here. Al-Qaeda was thought to be behind the bombing of three Egyptian tourist sites popular with Israelis. While the White House welcomed the historic image of Afghans holding their first--and miraculously nonviolent--democratic elections, charges of possible fraud marred the picture of liberty working its magic...