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...That's because the Trasierra is a hotel of balances. It strikes an important one between intimacy and privacy, being small enough for a big group to rent and big enough never to feel crowded. Another fine balance is between a smoothly managed hotel offering professional service and a family-run operation, which provides its guests with homemade olive oil, Jamon Serrano (the famous cured ham of the mountains) from the nearby village of Jabugo, and fine dining (the owner's daughter is an inspired chef). All this for the starting price of $185 per person per night, with breakfast...
...spat on a letter from the U.S. Treasury Department telling him not to play. He beat Spassky and pocketed a $3.35 million prize, and a U.S. federal warrant was issued for his arrest. Faced with a possible penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for violating America's economic sanctions, he has never returned to the States...
...What the quantity of megapixels (each one equals 1 million pixels) does determine is how big you should make your prints. For most consumers, a bottom-of-the-line, 2-megapixel model is just fine for producing great 4-in. by 6-in. prints. Opt for 3 to 4 megapixels if you want to print 8-by-10s. You need the newer 5- or 8-megapixel models only if you want to create poster-size prints or plan to crop and zoom in your pictures on your computer before you print them...
Aggressive and driven, Citron built and sold two hugely successful financial-services companies within 10 years, netting more than $200 million before he was forced out of finance by an SEC investigation that accused him of stock manipulation. He paid a massive fine--$22.5 million--but admitted no wrongdoing. Instead of slinking into well-heeled obscurity, he plotted his return, this time determined to shake up a new industry. Citron, 33, is now CEO of Vonage, which has become, in 18 months, the leading player in the explosive new market for home-phone service via high-speed Web connections, known...
DIED. JULIA CHILD, 91, trilling cookbook author who on TV's The French Chef introduced fine French cuisine to American homes. (See page...