Word: leos
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...Government. Carmen D. Lopez, executive director of HUNAP, and Dennis Norman, the faculty chair of HUNAP’s Native Health Program, said in a conference call yesterday that the partnership is designed “to bring the brainpower of Harvard to benefit Native people.” Leo J. Nolan, a senior policy analyst at IHS, said Tuesday that over the past 50 years, IHS has been very successful at combatting infectious disease in the Native American community, but that chronic illness—health problems related to lifestyle and behavior—remains a problem...
...exclusive mountain getaway first opened its doors in 1901, attracting the likes of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and Albert, King of the Belgians, until its first dark spell, when it was turned into a military hospital during World War I. History repeated itself during World War II, but the hotel rebounded both times. It re-established its place in the winter sun as a dormitory for Winter Olympics athletes in 1956, and prominent guests returned in droves. Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov visited with his butterfly net as his constant companion, to the amusement of fellow residents. When Frank Sinatra...
...still rocking its clientele. "We loved the idea of starting again," says Paola Gualandi, whose entrepreneurial clan now owns the Cristallo. "And Cortina is very popular and upscale - everybody wants to be here." The exclusive mountain getaway first opened its doors in 1901, attracting the likes of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and Albert, King of the Belgians, until its first dark spell, when it was turned into a military hospital during World War I. History repeated itself during World War II, but the hotel rebounded both times. It re-established its place in the winter sun as a dormitory...
...While Leo and Martha’s post coital conversations bear witness to their love, Malcolm’s statements about European reaction to the Chinese Civil War, or her summary of World War One, feel stilted and awkwardly placed, merely mechanisms to get the action moving again...
...Silent Lies” has the feel of a first time novel, which it is. Although the reader may not feel an emotional urgency on behalf of Leo, the plot takes enough twists and turns to make the ride agreeable...