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Kebir Houari squints against the sun at a surveillance camera mounted on one of the 17th century town houses that form the historic heart of the southern French city of Beaucaire. Installed to dissuade the increasing acts of crime and aggression that have targeted passersby and parked cars in the square below, this camera also seems to bore in on the sidewalk caf? where Houari and many other members of Beaucaire's ethnic Arab and immigrant population gather to while away time. "You get the feeling we're under watch and suspicion, even though we are just...
...WATERWORLD Without H2O, it would all be wasteland. With it, Nizwa is a lush oasis of date palms about 165 km from Muscat. Its recently restored 17th century fort is the largest structure from that era on the Arabian peninsula. Check out the deceptive architecture featuring false passageways, as well as the underground stream that provided a steady source of water in case of siege...
...hands of the jury. If he survives, his political fate will be up to the voters in November, which is why he rarely misses a chance to remind people what Providence was like pre-Buddy. At a reception, he beckons me to a plate-glass window on the 17th floor of the Biltmore Hotel, where he happens to live. "I love this view," he says, gesturing with a glass of '98 Louis Bernard Chateauneuf du Pape. "That was a brownfield," he says of the picturesque street being plied by a trolley. "I put the railroad tracks under the mall there...
...Harvard team she captained finished ranked third in the Northeast Region, 15th in the nation in runs scored per game and 17th in win percentage. The 31-10 record gave Harvard its best win percentage in school history...
...pair are internationally recognized art collectors, and donated many of their prized 17th century Old Master Dutch drawings to the Fogg Art Museum...