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Forget artists and spies; the real market for Sony's compact new digital camcorder is teens who are forced to endure the embarrassment of tourist dads pointing their giant cameras at every Paris cafe. This tiny, 1-lb. DCR-PC7 camera, with its 2.5-in. screen that swivels out to preview each shot, lets Dad always have Paris and the kids their dignity. ($3,199; Sony...
...every presidential winner in the 20th century except Dwight Eisenhower. Geographically, it is the center of the country, containing elements of Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western regions. Economically, it has rich farmland, thriving suburbs, big cities and impoverished ghettos. As farm communities die in the north, retirement and tourist centers like Branson flourish in the south. And it's a home to the great Mississippi and Missouri rivers, which have defined much of America's identity and destiny...
...Crimson has also reported that part of the problem was the inability of Harvard Dining Services (HDS) workers to distinguish administrators and faculty from tourists. This, of course, angered some administrators. Why will graduate students be better at eyeing tourists than HDS workers who see them every day, if they do not know the professors? A sign would take care of any ambiguity and if, Heaven help us, a tourist snuck in, we would all survive...
Boutros-Ghali began his speech with a personal appeal to curb terrorism, recalling the assassination of his grandfather, who was prime minister of Egypt. "In recent years, my homeland Egypt has been the target of terrorists," he said. "They seek to intimidate the population. They seek to destroy the tourist industry. They care nothing for the innocent lives they destroy...
...that the recent violence in the occupied territories was solely caused by Israel's illegal opening of a tourist tunnel in occupied East Jerusalem is similar to attributing the death and destruction of the First World War to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Serbia. Commentary in the U.S. media, Danilewitz's article included, has diverted the readers' attention from the fact that this tunnel violates both international law, which states that territory occupied by war cannot be changed by the occupier, and the Oslo agreements, which stipulate that changes in the Holy City must be suspended until...