Word: visitor
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...year ago at an Inter-American Development Bank event in Washington. And no Mexican President has ever had the chemistry with a U.S. President that Fox has with George W. Bush. The first foreign leader to play host to Bush as President, Fox will be Bush's first state visitor next week. Their agenda: a sequel to their talks at Fox's ranch house in San Cristobal last February. Topping the agenda is a proposed new U.S. immigration policy for Mexico...
...Australian. "It was really quite a wonderful place, and I go back now and think, 'What a hellhole.'" His books bear some responsibility, he admits. "We are an influence, there's no question of that, and maybe there wouldn't have been so many backpackers without us." But as visitor numbers climb each year, no one has any plans to stem the flood. Wheeler offers no grand solutions, sticking to the piecemeal guidebook wisdom of patronizing the good places to discourage the bad. But he is ready to give up one backpacker conceit, the habit of calling one another "travelers...
...visitor was Fakhra Yunas, a 21-year-old former dancing girl who fulfilled the Pakistani equivalent of the American Dream?marriage into a rich and powerful family?only to have her life virtually destroyed. Host Durrani was born into wealth and advantage and was a glamorous politician's wife?until she went public with her own tale of victimhood. And so, Durrani and Fakhra became a team: privileged protector and wounded ward, trying to repair some of the damage done to Fakhra's life. They have also become twin avengers determined to rip the veil from the cruelty and hypocrisy...
...sweet-and-sour memory. Yet only a few doors away, the splashiest new eatery in the forgotten, once glorious town is Chinese Cascade, which serves Mandarin prawn toast, cauliflower Manchurian and vegetable wontons. It's "The Authentic Chinese Restaurant," if you believe the sign, but when an unsuspecting visitor steps in, he finds that the waiters, the diners, the owners - everyone is Indian. "Here there are so many Pakistani restaurants," shrugs the amiable proprietor, laughing at the thought that there might be Chinese faces in a Chinese restaurant. "The locals go bonkers for that food. This is something different...
...felt very much a visitor there; I knew I could leave when I wanted to. And perhaps I could not have understood my book any better had I sat there for several more hours, for days, still knowing that, when I chose, I could open my eyes...