Reading and understanding newspapers. Пыж А.М. - 37 стр.

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famous person, for example, and the writer may give examples of it several
times during the story — especially at the beginning or end.
Now read the feature article that follows and mark all the characteristic
above-explained features of this type of article. Be ready to give a full
commentary and prove that this is a typical feature article (pay attention to the
vocabulary, headline, content, author’s attitude, etc.).
Clued up
Author Barbara Nadel leads you through this labrynthine city, setting for her
Inspector Ikmen crime novels
Saturday May 17, 2003
The Guardian
It's rude to stare, but every time I visit Dolmabahce Palace, that last
imperial gasp of Ottoman grandeur, I have to do it. Not because the building is
magnificent (it is, but that's by the way). No, I stare because the sentries that
stand immobile in front of its gates are so handsome that not to look would be a
sin. And, not wishing to incur divine displeasure, I make a small pilgrimage to
Dolmabahce every time I visit Istanbul.
I've been coming to the city for more years than I care to count - sometimes
in order to research my Inspector Ikmen crime series but sometimes just to hang
out and see what happens. My last visit, which was in January, involved among
other activities: attending a Syrian Orthodox church and having tea with its
Aramaic-speaking priests, and meeting with a very helpful dervish.
Of course, I could talk at length about the places one should visit when in
Istanbul: the Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace, Aya Sofya - the list goes on.
However, because I visit often and tend to spend quite a bit of my time off the
beaten track, what follows will be somewhat idiosyncratic. After all, my
characters do live and work in the city and, although their investigations
sometimes take them to the "great" sights, they also spend a considerable
amount of time in little-known neighbourhoods.
Balat is probably my favourite neighbourhood. Situated on the left bank
(old city side) of the Golden Horn, it was once the Jewish quarter, housing
thousands of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain and given refuge by the
Ottoman empire in 1492. Some Jews still remain and are served by local
synagogues, the oldest and most impressive of which is the Ahrida. Now,
however, Balat's magnificent fortress-like houses provide homes to many
different types of people.

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