CROSS CURRENTS : From Russia with astonishment
A recent trip overseas informs more than most
Posted: October 5, 2009 at 6:45 a.m.
The haunting theme from the James Bond movie, "From Russia With Love," kept playing in my memory as background music when our plane touched down on the runway in St. Petersburg. Some countries hold gauzy images in our minds, and the old tune being dredged out of a brain wrinkle seemed well matched to my fuzzy ignorance of this place where I was about to become a typical tourist.
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Opinion, Pages 4 on 10/05/2009
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