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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...10pm: Late lunch in a cafe high above the ruins of the city fortress. The long-anticipated meal followed a substantial walk through the park that now occupies the formerly bustling community within the fortress. We stay for nearly three hours, snacking on the tastiest salads I've ever eaten. Serbian cuisine, which is all locally grown, is definitely the best part of the trip. I'll never be able to return to my genetically modified diet...

Author: By Lena Chen | Title: 24 Hours in Belgrade | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...41pm: We walk to the waterfront, where the Danube and Sava rivers converge, to meet friends at Cantina de Frida, the former home of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, located on a long strip of trendy lounges...

Author: By Lena Chen | Title: 24 Hours in Belgrade | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...Relations between the sexes, too, pose a problem. Royal told me that it is difficult to watch young men and women walk by on the street, flirting and touching each other with limbs exposed. In Azerbaijan, he said, a woman generally speaks sweetly and softly while looking only at her male partner. Royal feels that in New York he cannot express his opinions about relationships, or about religion more broadly. He believes that his English is bad enough that he could not hope to express the truths contained in the Koran, and encouraged me to read it for myself. Though...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Strangers in the Night | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...Specializing in beads, he now teaches the skill to college students on Murano, the Venetian island renowned for the craft. I ask the man whether he lives here. He smirks and responds, half in jest, “No one lives on Murano.” Leaving him, I walk along the boardwalk-turned-sidewalk, watching as the never-ending line of shops begins to close. It’s a wonder that they all stay in business, as each is the same as the next, full of cheap glass trinkets: small clowns, a little perfume bottle (the majority...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Façade | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...walk down these muddy streets filled with garbage, tangled power lines, and the roar of gasoline-powered generators, I wonder if Obiang himself has ever taken the same stroll and seen the same things. To keep these citizens living in conditions like this for perhaps no other reason than laziness or gross contempt is hardly indicative of a growing democracy...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden | Title: A Tale of Two Guineas | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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