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It’s not just amateur photographers chasing geisha down Kyoto streets - these are the most irritating visitor faux pas, ...
India has been happily appeasing the US, but as these punitive tariffs show, the US wants more. The belief that by ...
It didn’t mention the crash, but many in the crowd surely knew his connection: He received not only the polite applause that ...
Feet are considered the lowest and, frankly, least “pure” part of the body in Thai culture. That means you don’t put your ...
By Lucy Hughes-Hallett When Hawley Harvey Crippen and his lover Ethel Le Neve were committed for trial in 1910 on the charge of murdering Crippen’s wife, the street outside Bow Street Magistrates’ ...
The house hunter politely introduced themselves and asked to view a room in a flat share in Walthamstow - but was met with a four-word response from the landlord wanting to know their nationality.
It turned out that everyone was nice. Also polite. No one seemed to hold us responsible for the actions of “the bad orange man,” as a waitress in Lunenburg called the U.S. president.
Karp may be right that this country desperately needs a new national purpose, but his proposed solution is, to put it politely, dangerously misguided. Ominously enough, one of his primary examples ...
Last week, the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi released an official statement addressed to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chancellor, Robert J. Jones. This statement voiced strong ...
David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...
DEAR ABBY: How do I politely tell people I don’t like having anyone visit me in my home? My home is my safe haven. The energy of the outside world drains me, and I don’t want that feeling ...