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...your typical mountain outpost. Designers Jean-Michel Gathy and Kelly Wearstler have devised cheeky takes on classic ski-lodge motifs, from the 14-ft. silver and steel elk antlers in the spa to the slope-side Nest café that serves matzo-ball soup in Chinese take-out containers. Instead of rooms, there are 173 residences, from studios to four-bedroom spreads, all equipped with kitchens and gas fireplaces. Toddlers get their own amenity: a tepee full of toys...
...Eiffel Tower • off the moon • Is trapped in a pit full of vipers • Fought my way out of a pit full of vipers by hacking at them with swords • and then stabbing them with a bayonet • Licked a hallucinogenic toad • Just beat Jean-Claude Van Damme in a bar fight • Saved babies and puppies from a burning building • Joined the mob • Married a unicorn • Got stuck in a minefield • Traveled back in time. Then traveled forward in time to write this • Became a Somali pirate • Sold...
...ongoing series of town hall meetings across France to define the French national identity. Some say the forums are already being used by disgruntled right-wingers to blame crime, rising unemployment and other social ills on minorities and immigrants. Opponents also argue that they play into the hands of Jean-Marie Le Pen's extreme-right National Front (FN) party. (See pictures of Bastille Day celebrations...
...Mixing national identity with immigration is an error," says conservative legislator and former Interior Minister François Baroin, who is one of several politicians on the right calling for the debates to be ended. "It's opening Pandora's box." Former conservative premiers Alain Juppé and Jean-Pierre Raffarin have similarly questioned the "utility" and "intellectual rigor" of the debates. And Sarkozy's own commissioner for ethnic diversity, Yazid Sebag, admitted to being "not very comfortable" with the initiative...
...hands of director Jean-Marc Vallee and screenwriter Julian Fellowes, The Young Victoria adheres - mostly - to history. It's romanticized, with Victoria's beloved Albert (Rupert Friend) a more eager suitor than history indicates. And the movie may give British political scholars fits, because Lord Melbourne, the 58-year-old Prime Minister who coached Victoria in politics and queenly affairs, is played here by the dashing and quite youthful Paul Bettany, excising 20 years and at least as many pounds from Lord M.'s real person. (See the top 10 movie performances...