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...year-long project that will wrap up this year. Pakistan has a great tourism website. And the country decided to make last year "Destination Pakistan 2007." But there's the rub. Last year was one of the most troubled in Pakistan's history. Terrorist attacks became a weekly???sometimes daily?occurrence. President Pervez Musharraf dismissed the Supreme Court Chief Justice (twice!), triggering massive street protests. Swat Valley, a picturesque tourist spot renowned for its skiing and trout fishing, is now, as my colleague Aryn Baker so vividly described just two months ago, Taliban Central. And to end the year...
What is this emporium? It is Bloomingdale's, the flashy department store on Manhattan's East Side. Now, as Christmas approaches, more than 300,000 shoppers weekly???some 60,000 on Saturday alone?surge through the store's eleven floors. While ogling the merchandise, they also eye each other. For Bloomingdale's is both a neighborhood center and celebrity hangout, a place where the next person a shopper bumps into (literally) may be either an acquaintance or someone familiar from a thousand newspaper photographs...
Calls come into Kennedy's office at the rate of 1,000 a day. He receives roughly twice as much mail?2,500 to 3,000 letters weekly???as any other Senator. Most of it is routine, but there is also a flood of hate letters. Some of these are crank notes ("Listen, lover boy"), but the serious "threat" mail is turned over to the Secret Service; there is an average of two death threats per week. Kennedy rarely if ever sees them...
Grit issues once a week from Williamsport, Pa., where it is published by its founder, a tall, robust, white-crowned German-American named Dietrick Lamade (pronounced Lam'-a-dy). It is a weekly???"America's Greatest Family Newspaper"?of 14 pages plus fiction supplement, aimed carefully at the smalltown family. In makeup it looks as the Christian Science Monitor might look if the Monitor were checkered with pictures. In content it is a strange combination of newspaper, magazine section, almanac, mail order catalog...
...ROTOFOTO WEEKLY???A Magazine of Fiction, Fotos, Fashion...
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