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Britain is a small island, with an elite whose members all seem to know each other. Proof, if needed, came at a recent London performance of Gethsemane, David Hare's new play about rot in British politics. The audience was silver-haired and well-heeled. On some seats lay coats by Hare's fashion-designer wife, Nicole Farhi. And sitting in the audience was Lord Levy, a prominent Labour Party fund raiser who is Jewish and made his millions in pop music. Levy is widely seen as the model for the play's Otto Fallon, a Labour Party fund raiser...
...With the island's identity shifting so dramatically, it can be hard to know if you're getting the "real" Majorca. Even the agriturismos - farmhouses converted to rustic hotels in the 1980s - increasingly style themselves as "rural retreats," complete with spas, plasma TVs and low-fat exfoliants...
...know where you are with Es Castell (www.fincaescastell.com), however. A sprawling 12-bedroom stone house dating from the 11th century, the hotel is tucked into the southern slopes of the Tramuntana Mountains in the north of the island. To walk through the doors is to step back in time - the tiled floors, white walls and exposed beams make it difficult to argue with manager James Hiscock when he describes Es Castell as "one of the prettiest hotels in Majorca...
...wonderful structures that tell you how it is put together and how it functions.” During the first leg of the mission, the crew will go from Colorado to Montana to Alaska to New Zealand to the American Samoa to the South Pole to Tahiti to Easter Island to Costa Rica and then back to Colorado. The first two parts of the mission, Montana and Alaska, have been successfully completed, Wofsy said, adding that the researchers found “a very marked difference between the air you find in the United States and the arctic...
...Aruba Marriott is offering a $250 credit (promotional code P50), which you get back when you check out. Use the credit to pay for your airfare to the island. A four-night minimum stay is required. Rates start at $369 per night, through Nov. 21. L.G. Smith Boulevard, No. 101, Palm Beach, Aruba...