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...coffee table. "I've had a concierge buy U.S. Open tickets for me in New York and arrange a tennis game for me in California. It's an easy way to take a vacation," says Tim Lovelace, 64, a retired hotelier from Asheville, N.C., who joined the Fort Collins, Colo., Private Escapes...
Judy Sadlier and Gene Budinger wanted to spend their retirement adrift. Over the last years of their working life in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Judy, 69, a financial adviser, and Gene, 67, a real estate agent, had daydreamed of taking a few years to explore the Caribbean in the Skylark, their 36-ft. sailboat. But when a sailing buddy told them two years ago that he was giving up an apartment he had rented in Antigua Guatemala and asked if they wanted it, they jumped at the opportunity...
...court martial of Sgt. Michael J. Smith, which opened at Fort Meade, Md., this week, is a "dog bites man " story with potentially national implications. Prosecutors say that the 24-year old military dog handler from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., "tormented, terrorized and terrified" prisoners at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, and have charged him with five counts of prisoner mistreatment, four assaults, two counts of conspiracy, one of dereliction of duty and a final charge of committing an indecent act. All involve his use of a black Belgian Shepherd named Marco at Abu Ghraib in late 2003 and early...
...nothing like a tour of Gaza City to show the clash of styles between the old Palestinian guard and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that swept January's legislative elections. First stop: the gabled, stone mansion of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, high walled and with enough guards to protect Fort Knox. Next: the residence of Ismail Haniya, the newly designated Prime Minister. Haniya, 43, insists on living at his family home?in a Gaza slum, where the lanes are crisscrossed with Hamas' Islamic green flags and clotheslines of wet laundry. There are no gunmen outside Haniya's simple, whitewashed house...
...made regalia and a dream catcher, to share their individual tribe’s tradition and history. “There’s a general misconception of a pan-native American identity,” said April D. Youpee-Roll ’08, a native of the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe in Montana. “But there’s a great deal of diversity among us.” Elijah M. Hutchinson ’06, a native Taino from New York who posed with a fistful of feathers to audience laughter, said he identifies more...