I know that's ridiculous, but I've made my foreigner friends try, and it works.
In e-mail messages, telephone calls and personal encounters, many Floridians are taking a ribbing from family members, foreigners and friends who cannot understand how the democratic process could go so awry.
They treat foreigners like friends, whereas in Australia we lock up foreigners for simply trying to get a job at Domino's.
"There are nice foreigners, I'm friends with them," Sharon Newman told me.
"We're not like you foreigners, who make friends easily in a bar or go travelling and chat up a stranger," she once told me.
But when he is a foreigner with family, friends and enemies scattered around the world, the process can become enormously complicated, as the transcripts show.
At the hotel, he became friends with foreigners, including Peace Corps volunteers before the program was canceled in Sierra Leone.
By family tradition and antiquarian inclinations, Claudius was in sympathy with the senatorial aristocracy; but soldiers and courtiers were his real supporters, while freedmen and foreigners had been his friends in the days of neglect.
The Amnesty report said detainees were often denied access to lawyers, doctors or friends, and foreigners, particularly black Africans, had been beaten unconscious for not showing police their papers.
Marshrutkas have proven to be the best source of friends for foreigners as curious young Russians, amazed at hearing a group of girls speaking English, ask, "Why are you in Samara?
