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Hello Sunshine. Gansevoort South in Miami has a rooftop pool and and oceanside infinity pool. They're offering a "Forever Valentine's Day" package with champagne and strawberries, and cocktails by the plunge pool. You also get two bathrobes to keep and a Mile High intimacy kit to turn up the heat, in case the sun isn't enough. $395 per night, available Feb. 12-16. 2377 Collins...
When it's time to join the fun, kit yourself out with a mask from MondoNovo in the Dorsoduro quarter. Every inch of wall space in this grottolike shop is hung with elaborate masks skillfully handpainted in vibrant colors. "The secret of wearing a mask is to invent a personality for yourself and interact with the people around you," says master maskmaker Guerrino Lovato, whose papier-mâché creations were worn by Nicole Kidman in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. (See pictures of the glitz and glamour at the Venice Film Festival...
...that best inspires him, and he is full in the process of making the watercolors that are the harbingers of his temperas. He bundles up in boots, a turtleneck, a ratty forest-green hacking jacket with a ragged velvet collar, and a shaggy sheepskin coat. He grabs his watercolor kit, clucks at his dogs to follow, and lopes off across the snow-spotted fields. When he finds what he wants, he plunks right down in the slush and goes to work with a fury, often until his fingers turn blue...
...combination of new incentives and extensions of credits already in the tax code. The National Automobile Dealers Association has made the incentives a top lobbying priority; new legislation has already been introduced in Congress. One proposal supported by Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Republican Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri would permit new car buyers to deduct auto loan interest and sales tax on their personal income taxes. "We think temporarily making interest deductible on car loans would spur sales," says NADA economist Paul Taylor. The NADA is also supporting "cash for clunkers" initiatives, which encourage consumers to upgrade...
...human-rights groups decried as trumped up - finally won her appeal. The same month, a Malaysian court overturned the Home Minister's decision to jail a dissident journalist without trial. Two court cases may not sound like much, but their significance was not lost on longtime opposition politician Lim Kit Siang, who labeled the decisions "victories for free speech and judicial independence...