Memory is their guide
13.02.2010, 23:02
The opening chapter of Kevin Brockmeier's extraordinary new novel, "The Brief History of the Dead," is as breathtaking as any fiction I have read in the past few years. People who have died describe their crossing over into a nameless city in the afterlife. To one blind man, the crossing felt like he walked for days through a desert.
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Another man described his passage as an amusement park train ride. A girl passed through an ocean the color of dried cherries and a rain of ball bearings.
Travel and Tourism Industry Expo at The ITC
12.02.2010, 16:15
Travel and Tourism Industry Expo at The International Travel College
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The annual ITC Industry Expo is a great opportunity for students to meet with representatives from New Zealands travel and tourism industry and this years Expo was the best one yet!
For one day each year, the college is transformed into an Expo site and companies representing all sectors of the travel and tourism industry are invited to showcase their product to ITC students.
Australia's 'bloody hell' tourism drive raises eyebrows
12.02.2010, 09:56
Sydney: The oath-laden slogan of Australia's new tourism advertising campaign - "So where the bloody hell are you?" - has irked critics who say it would offend Asians and baffle Americans.
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Queensland premier Peter Beattie, leader of a state whose economy heavily relies on tourism, backed critics saying the $131 million promotion was a terrible gaffe.
City sandwich
31.01.2010, 18:50
Former chief executive of Hermes Pensions Management, Tony Watson, has been named chairman of the Marks & Spencer pension scheme.
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The M&S pension trustees are notorious for refusing to meet Philip Green when he attempted to buy the retailer in 2004, in what proved to be the deciding factor in him walking away from the bid.
Watson should be no stranger to trustee activism, having run activist fund manager Hermes, which manages BT's Ł23bn pension fund.
Museum's visitors can soon spend a day as a slave
30.01.2010, 21:17
The Museum of Slavery and Civil Rights here plans to offer a new frontier in "experiential tourism" this spring: a day as a slave.
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"In order to heal, we must embrace the history of slavery here in America," said Afriye We-kandodis, the museum's director.
Not everyone is so excited. Selma booster George Swift steers visitors to the National Voting Rights Museum, but he's not as enthusiastic about its sister attraction.
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