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...year history as a pilgrimage destination, Varanasi doesn't lack for places to stay. But the stylish Hotel Ganges View, located at Assi Ghat, is in a class of its own. Only recently converted from a private residence, the 100-year-old guest house retains a convivial charm. Each of the 13 rooms is individually decorated with antique furniture. The roof terrace is ideal for watching the sun rising and setting over the river. Doubles start at $16. Call (91-542) 313-218 for reservations and ask for room nine, complete with frescoed ceiling and private balcony...
Taylor’s professional success was equalled by personal charm...
...resourceful and thorough biographers around - his 1995 exposé of Jeffrey Archer was practically the case for the prosecution that put the British author-politician behind bars in 2001. Through interviews with more than 250 colleagues, friends (and many ex-friends), Crick exposes the mess of contradictions, shenanigans and charms of the man known always to his players as the Boss. Ferguson, now 60, grew up in the shadow of the shipyard his family had worked in for generations in Govan, a district of Glasgow where the running battles of Catholic-Protestant sectarianism and workers' rights were fought...
...Beata," 1795, the enchanting picture of Alba at play, her black fleece of curls cascading down her back--"There is not a hair on her head," wrote a French visitor to Madrid, "that does not excite desire"--tormenting her pious old servant, la Beata, with a red coral charm for repelling the evil...
...speaks in one- or two-word sentences and locks himself in his room for hours. He challenges the family on a daily basis. My eldest son Jesse is graduating from high school this year, has been named a student of the year, has an impressive resume and can charm the pants off anyone. Jesse is the autistic one. ELE SHNIER Scottsdale, Ariz...