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...point of the hooks), named after the shape of the peninsula on which it's located. Guests staying in one of the 20 clifftop cabanas can enjoy seclusion, outstanding seafood and open-air spa tents overlooking the ocean. (This is also one of the few places you can get Christian Dior beauty treatments outside France.) Rooms start at around $700 per night including meals, and at the higher end of the price range come with a private sauna, hot tub and plunge pool (www.pontadosganchos.com.br...
...Puppet Theater, featuring both masked and unmasked actors, elaborate props, and the occasional puppet. It’s a modern adaptation of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” a medieval epic poem that detailed the author’s view of the Christian afterlife.“The Divine Reality Comedy” is perhaps best described as a proselytizing Polyphonic Spree meets political theater. As intriguing as that sounds, the production was an interminable hour and a half of paper-thin commentary on the Bush administration through the means of paper-mach?...
...sacred annals of crazy young love, Atheer Lokus may have opened a whole new chapter of recklessness. The 20-year-old restaurant manager was living safely in Ankawa, a Christian town in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, until April 2006, when he began chatting over the Internet with Miriam Eliasan, an 18-year-old Christian girl from Dora, one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods. After six months of trading photographs and sweet nothings, he decided that he could no longer live without her. So he drove all the way to Baghdad, where, after getting caught in a firefight between militants...
...Part of what makes Ankawa a target-rich environment for Cupid's arrows is the relative openness and sophistication of the Christian town, compared to conservative Erbil, the nearby capital of the Kurdish region. Alcohol, mixed company and marriages of choice are all much more socially acceptable among Christians than their Kurdish neighbors, most of whom are Muslims. And Ankawans have strong ties to Lebanon, which has a large Christian population and a reputation as the fashion capital of the Middle East, so they think they know how to throw a wedding in style. ("Our dresses show a little skin...
...much like the Spanish and Slovaks, worried that Taiwan could be spurred to declare independence. Russia is invested on the Serbian side both for strategic and fraternal reasons. Wary of national claims in the Caucasus and elsewhere, Russian President Putin has loudly defended Serbia, which shares the same Orthodox Christian roots as Russia. Moscow also sees Kosovo as another case of NATO encroachment into traditional spheres of Russian influence, and will likely work with China to ensure that the new state is denied recognition at the United Nations...