German Friends: EXPERIENCE NYC ON A BUDGET
Dear Sandra: I will be showing three German friends around New York City. We are students and would like to see the most for the least amount of money. What should we do and where should we stay? - M.S., Oswego Dear M.S.: Accommodations in New York City are not cheap. Check out the following: the YMCA, www.ymcanyc.org , (212) 875-4273, the Chelsea International Hostel, www. chelseahostel.com , (212) 647-0010, and Hostelling International, www.hinewyork.org . Prices are about $30 per...
German Friends: 3 THOUGHT ABDUCTED SHOW UP UNHARMED BEIRUT POLICE SAY REPORT WAS IN ERROR
An American woman and two West German friends were reported safe Thursday, the day after a previously unknown group claimed to have kidnapped them.Deborah Fahrend, 54, a former Marin County resident; Mounir Shamseddin Sami, 39, a naturalized West German born in Lebanon; and his 7-year-old son, Danjel, born in Berlin, were not kidnapped, police said. "I'm terribly relieved that she's out," said Fahrend's mother, Margaret Brooks,...
German Friends: They said it was madness to leave Bayern.. now they know why I did it says Markus Babbel,
Football
WHEN Markus Babbel told some of his German friends last summer he was moving to Liverpool, some of them questioned his sanity.How could he leave a club of Bayern Munich's stature to start a new career in a foreign land?Now he can afford to chuckle. And he insists the same people who thought he had made the wrong choice are realising just why he came to Merseyside.The defender said: "I had a wonderful career with Bayern and of course I will always look for...