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...after all the hoopla, Mother Nature did not listen to the meteorologists. Certainly, the storm did wreak havoc in isolated locales, including the beachfront of Massachusetts. Yet, overall, the nor'easter was a pseudo-blizzard. Mother Nature has once again humbled the National Weather Service and the Weather Channel. The meteorologists reminded us of political pundits on election night--a little too certain, a little too fast. The raw power of nature to confound human expectations and defy human control was revealed, not in an earth-shattering storm, but in the lack...
DIED. GILBERT TRIGANO, 80, vacation visionary who steered Club Med from beachfront commune to worldwide, multimillion-dollar resort chain; in Paris. The child of Algerian Jews, Trigano fought against the Nazi occupation of France alongside Gerard Blitz, who would later found the trail-blazing retreat business. After the war, Trigano wrote for the communist newspaper L'Humanit? before starting his 30-year career as helmsman of the company that delivered mai tais and tropical sunsets to the world's middle class...
...members of Alpha 66, a radical anti-Castro group, often patrolled the crowd conducting surveillance, the INS said. Record checks showed that three of the four participated in a 1995 incident in which a band of Alpha 66 members took a boat to Cuba and fired shots at a beachfront hotel. Posing as tourists, INS agents tested the irregulars' lines in the early-morning hours and were quickly challenged; they discovered that whenever the irregulars sensed trouble, they would alert others nearby; agents think they put through a call to a local AM radio station asking for more protesters...
...Marriott worry about storm insurance, hurricanes and repainting the woodwork every year," says John D. Strong, 63, of Decatur, Ill., who has 14 weeks at four properties in Hilton Head, S.C., where beachfront property was too expensive for him to buy outright. Strong and his peers are also getting variety through bartering. For a fee of about $120 a year, companies like Resort Condominiums International and Interval International will broker an exchange, letting time-share owners in, say, Florida, the most popular destination, journey off to Colorado or Europe...
...beachfront was blurry, as it should have been at 6 a.m. My contact lenses were dry and flat, but thank goodness my father's vision was clear--he had already been navigating the highway for an hour-and-a-half from Houston down to the less-than-picturesque "beach" of Freeport, Texas...