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...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 included and special rates for people wanting to rent the entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Check In: Andalusian Hideaway | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...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 €150 per person per night, with breakfast included and special rates for people wanting to rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Andalusian Hideaway | 8/19/2004 | See Source »

...sound of a distant train"). Comely and outgoing, she studied ballet and acting as a child, was signed by a talent agent at 15 and was soon dancing in a Schweppes orange-soda commercial. At 17 she earned raves as a teen temptress in the loopy sex farce Jamon Jamon. "I cried when the movie ended," she says, in the lilting English she learned during two years of dance study in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, "but I also knew that film was going to be my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woman Nearly on Top | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...Jamon's death, however, has made Franklin furious. "I know he never got over his brother's death, his baby brother, six years apart," Les told TIME shortly after discovering Jamon's body. "But he promised me that he'd never hurt me the way his brother hurt me, and in the final analysis he broke his promise, and I'm very angry." He adds, "There will be no Jamon's place. Shaka was 16; he was a baby. Jamon was a 31-year-old man. I'm not going to give him that. He knew I loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brother To Brother | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...kids hard. But he also sees a genetic component in depression. He has heard that his father, with whom he has no ties, once attempted to kill himself, but it never registered until now. Depression never held back Les Franklin during his climb out of poverty. "Did Jamon have it hard?" he asks rhetorically. "Come on, look at this house! I was an IBM executive! And now I'm concerned about affluent black kids. There are the same patterns you see in the white community; they have more idle time, more time to think. I don't know too many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brother To Brother | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

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