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...right to be. Jonathan--always dressed in a dark suit and tie, peering at the world through thick glasses and expecting to find vegetarian cuisine in the depths of a country where sausage appears to be the national dish--is not entirely prepared for the ministrations of his tour guides. They operate a grandly named organization called Heritage Tours, which consists of a dubious car and eccentric employees: Alex (Eugene Hutz), who says he enjoys writing but really wants to be an accountant; and Alex's grandfather (Boris Leskin), the driver, who claims to be blind and to require...
...Arabic linguist on his second tour in Iraq, Zachary Scott-Singley, 24, understood the fighting part. It's the setting-up-the-democracy part he doesn't get. "I do feel like we were lied to about our reasons for being here," he writes in his meditative, almost daily blog about life in Saddam's hometown, posting pictures of what he sees on his base: a headless palm tree that had been hit by a mortar, for example, or a gold carp caught in the Tigris. "Here," he writes, "they teach you to trust no one because anyone might...
...basic rule,” he said, “is that the more money that goes to good causes, the better.” When I raised the point that Starbucks and Ethos have probably spent millions on their marketing campaign, which includes a two-month R.V. tour, he said, “that’s the fundamental dilemma Keeper Springs faces. We don’t spend any money on marketing because we’re afraid of the criticism we might face...
Then, in August, classmate Frank Herrmann, the ace of the Harvard pitching staff, followed suit, signing with the Cleveland Indians after a summer ball tour in Hawaii...
...administration's high-profile diplomacy will continue later this month when Karen Hughes, who became "Ambassador Hughes" when she was sworn in Friday as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, takes her staff and five networks on a week-long "listening tour" of four cities in the Middle East and Europe. Officials tell TIME that Hughes will bring along "citizen ambassadors," including a representative of the education community, as she meets with foreign officials, academics and students to talk about reasons for the problems with the nation's image, and to get ideas for improving...