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...partnership with composer John Kander, created the brassy, cynical-but-sweet scores of such Broadway musicals as Cabaret and Chicago; in New York City. After penning a few pop hits (including the novelty number Santa Baby), he teamed up with Kander for a long Broadway run that started with Flora the Red Menace in 1965. They were long associated with that show's star, Liza Minnelli, who, in a 1977 Martin Scorsese film, introduced their omnipresent big-city anthem, New York, New York. DIED. HARVEY WHEELER, 85, political scientist who in 1962 co-authored the bestselling Cold War novel Fail...
...Just an hour's drive from Phuket airport lies Khao Lak on the mainland and better known among divers as the jumping-off point to the Similan Islands. It's now also home to La Flora, Sanctuary's sleek, 68-room resort. Staff members are clad in black, and so is much of the property. The style: contemporary Thai. Room rates start around $85 a night. Meanwhile, a 30-minute speedboat ride away from Phuket's main town, on Racha Island, lies the Racha. Fronting one of Thailand's most pristine beaches, this Sanctuary resort boasts 70 villas. Some...
...Hong Kong-based, eco-conscious developer, which recently opened two facilities in the area. Just an hour's drive on the mainland from Phuket airport lies Khao Lak, better known among divers as the jumping-off point to the Similan Islands. It's now also home to La Flora, Sanctuary's sleek, 68-room resort. Staff are clad in black, as is much of the property. The style: contemporary Thai. Room rates start at around $85 a night. A 30-minute speedboat ride away from Phuket's main town is Racha Island, and an eponymous resort. Fronting one of Thailand...
...Pedro!" Today, La Gomera remains home to about 18,000 residents, and tourism is helping to stanch emigration by those no longer able to make a living from farming or fishing. Ferries make the 40-minute trip from Tenerife, and one of the attractions, apart from a rich flora in the cloud-shrouded peaks, the highest of which is just under 1,500 m above sea level, is the chance to hear whistle-speak. When Eugenio Darias was born in 1950, phones were still a novelty. "I learned the Silbo playing in the street," he recalls. "If you didn...
...donation, given to OCP by Harvard PhD recipients Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, comes in conjunction with a grant renewal from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which contributed $1.25 million in 2002 to the “Women Working” project. While the two funds will not officially be combined, they will ultimately go towards the same three projects...