A few years ago the last “Five and Dime” in San Diego closed its doors (it’s now a Payless Shoe store). I loved five and dimes when I was…
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It would be unseemly to, let’s say, wish for the Iraqi election to be a flop. You have to admire those people coming out to vote, walking, not riding…
It would be a stretch to conflate the American torture antics at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo with the horrors of Auschwitz and the other Nazi extermination camps that are being…
Americans Abroad No. 5 Typically, after a foreign tour arrives back on home soil a tour leader does not hear again from all but a small fraction of his tour…
In the Middle Ages the Germans had an adage, stadt luft macht frei , city air make one free. During an historical period when religious authorities and the manorial system were…
Since the advent of the Souvenir Shop the word “souvenir” will connote to many, if not most people, something kitschy : the pillow with “Honolulu” embroidered on it; the Eiffel Tower…
Americans Abroad, No. 4 I can still hear Sal’s hoarse voice as we stood side by side at urinals at a rest stop on the Italian Autostrada: “Makeh pisshata, makeh pisshata ,” he…
Don’t ever ask Bush Press Secretary Scott McClellan “what time is it?” This guy is such an automatic prevaricator he is going to give you the wrong time, probably…
Americans abroad are pretty much the people they are at home, often more so. People don’t leave there little idiosyncrasies, quirks, prejudices and predispositions at the boarding gate at…
When the woman walked into Dr. Korsakov’s office he had to admit to himself that, outwardly, there didn’t seem to anything discernibly wrong with her. She was young, and…