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Acknowledgments
"The Innocents Abroad, Updated" originally appeared, in somewhat different form, in the International Herald Tribune 100th Anniversary Edition. "A Ramble Through Lebanon" was commissioned (and magnanimously paid for) by Vanity Fair but appeared in the Washington, D.C., City Paper. "Through Darkest America" was first published in Harpers; "Weekend Getaway," in Playboy, "Third World Driving Hints and Tips," in Automobile; and "Intellectual Wilderness, Ho" and "What Does the Future Hold In Store for Our Friends in Faraway Lands?," in The American Spectator. The author would like to thank these publications for permission to reprint this material. All the other pieces in the book were underwritten by Rolling Stone magazine. The author owes an immense debt of gratitude (and quite a bit of money advanced for expenses) to Editor and Publisher Jann Wenner.
Jann convinced me to occupy the International Affairs Desk at Rolling Stone; he never complained (well, hardly ever) about the