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...spends every spare moment hunting for antique furniture and fine Italian marble and textiles with which to furnish his guest rooms. Carpini is putting the final touches on a hilltop villa that sleeps 20. Initial restorations uncovered a Madonna and the wooden bearings of a house from the early 16th century. "Like the masterpieces in the museums," says Carpini, "this is our patrimony that must be preserved." Here too are some 200 acres of vineyards, olive groves and small lakes. Mountain bikes are available gratis. Nearby, there are also horse stables, a polo field and a championship golf course...
...work for them. They drew up a new plan which shifted enough voters around to make the districts more equitable, without actually changing the odds that Republicans would win fourteen of the districts. And then the state senate inserted a provision moving primary elections from May 21st to July 16th. Republican leaders said it was to give voters time to adjust to the new boundaries. Privately they admitted they were pushing the date back to hurt the two Democrats running for governor. Given a July primary, Rendell and Casey would have had two more months to fight each other...
...notion of a debut dates back to 16th-century England and is credited to Queen Elizabeth, who formally introduced eligible young women to the court. Wealthy Americans adopted the custom in the 19th century as a means of letting interested men know their daughters were available...
...Buddhists co-opted Phnom Kulen as a holy site of their own after the Hindu heyday. A 10-minute car ride up the mountain brings tourists to Preah Ang Tho, a 16th century Buddhist monastery notable for the giant reclining Buddha carved into the top of a 20-m boulder. Climb the rickety wooden staircase to a landing that surrounds the 17-m-long Buddha, where monks and believers bow, burn incense and leave fruit...
Junior Melissa Tanner was the lone Crimson athlete to compete solo on the track at Penn, finishing 16th in the 10,000 meters with a performance...