Word: tours
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...side, the President’s Harvard tour guides looked fearful: Kennedy had requested a visit to Weld 32, his freshman dorm room. They wanted nothing more than to impress their esteemed guest, but it was impossible. During a recent renovation, Kennedy’s former room had been turned into an elevator shaft...
Fifty years from now, as former residents of the Quad return for their reunion, they might stand in Harvard Square ready to embark on a nostalgic journey down Garden Street to their beloved houses. Much like JFK’s tour guides almost a century before, a sympathetic student will have the unfortunate task of pointing the bewildered alumni about a mile in the opposite direction...
...butcher's feelings toward the former Palestinian leader are contradictory. Omar has heard the tales of the corruption that dogged Arafat and his entourage, of the missing millions in aid money. But he remains loyal to Arafat and insists, along with his friends, that I tour a museum in the camp whose showpiece is a photo display of Arafat in his many guises, from bug-eyed terrorist to statesman. Omar rushes me past a photo of Arafat shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; he thinks Arafat gave away too much to the Israelis, as do many Palestinians still...
That kind of conspicuous candor has been part of Obama's campaign since his announcement tour in February. When a questioner at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wanted to know whether he would cut the military budget to make room for other priorities, Obama answered, "Actually, you'll probably see an initial bump in military spending in an Obama Administration" to replace the equipment that has been depleted by the Iraq war and build up the size of the active forces. When a teacher asked him about the No Child Left Behind law that is so unpopular with educators...
...world--stuck on an outcrop where he had spent the night after a sudden blizzard pounded the mountain. The situation was probably not survivable, and yet the other climbers were determined to help Hall live through it. "Think about Thailand," Viesturs said. "Once you come down, we'll tour the beaches and finally see those skinny legs of yours out of a snowsuit...