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Delegates and media alike were met with large corporate-underwritten crates of information and goodies upon their arrival. In the patriotically decorated box was everything a visitor to New York could possibly need and much more. Included: bus and subway maps, a hardcover American Express Guide to New York, a Zagat Restaurant Survey, coupon books, a calling card with one dollar's worth of free calling, convention directories, media guides for events in the city, a CNN tote bag, and a large New York Times duffel bag. all free. Tough life, this reporting business...
...Boston Common Visitor Kiosk ask for a guide to the Freedom Trail and let the red line take care of the rest. Along the trail, must-sees for history buffs include: the State House; the Granary Burying Ground, final resting place of not only Samuel Adams and John Hancock but also of your childhood friend, Mother Goose; Old South Meeting House, where the idea for the Boston Tea Party was first conceived; Paul Revere's House; and the Old North Church, of Longfellow fame...
...Walsh still opposed sending any greeting tothe royal visitor, saying "We should not pussyfootaround the issue...
...never a part of that sector of society in the sense that I would have been if I had been born into it," he says. "But I came pretty close. I was a pretty acclimated visitor...
That prospect clearly made our briefers uneasy. There was no mention of the U.N. on their many charts, so my fellow visitor, Samuel Lewis, kept raising the issue. A former American ambassador to Israel, he is now president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally funded foundation and think tank devoted to conflict resolution. At his probing, our hosts were willing to allow that U.S. military units might participate in a multinational peacekeeping mission under a non-American general in a U.N. blue beret. But their lack of enthusiasm for the idea was palpable...