Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fences. ``They could plant land mines, and it would not stop people from crossing,'' says Mexicali writer Sergio Gomez Montero. ``We may not like gringos for historical reasons, but today the world is dividing into commercial blocks, and we are handcuffed to each other for better or for worse.'' Travel the country: it seems hard to find anyone without at least a cousin or two working al otro lado--on the other side...
These are not words that are usually used to describe the world's best selling international travel guides, Harvard's own Let's Go. But they were the sentiments expressed in an article on the organization in an upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine...
...examples of the author's condescension, ridicule and inaccuracies, which they say are conveyed in the article's title: "Let's Go or Let's Not and Say We Did." Further down the same page, a graphic contains the elaboration: "Why You Can't Trust the Best-selling Harvard Travel Series...
...look for travel experience, familiaritywith the country, writing and language ability,the ability to work hard and responsibility," saidFitzpatrick. "Nathan had all those qualities; hewas a Middle-Eastern studies concentrator and wasvery responsible; he would stay at the hotel andwork while Dan would go out and drink. The onlything was that he had never been there [Turkey]before...
Fitzpatrick blamed the article's negative slanton Zevin's disillusionment with the life of aworking travel writer...