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...Hammam was once the private, wood-fired bathhouse of a fabulously wealthy family, and still looks like something straight out of the pages of A Thousand and One Nights. Lit by star-shaped skylights and flickering candles, its waters are perfumed with a heady blend of cinnamon, rosemary and mint oils. Water in the marble fountains trickles and flows from one steamy room to another; a traditional teahouse, complete with belly dancers, awaits upstairs. For a more understated but equally pleasurable alternative, try the Aljibe de San Miguel Baños Arabes, tel: (34-958) 52 28 67. Beyond...
...moment, courtesy of Philip Short, a gifted biographer who knows his communists. (His acclaimed Mao: A Life ran nearly 800 pages.) After Mao's banquet of tyrannies?the Great Leap Forward alone killed more than 20 million Chinese?the Khmer Rouge leader should have been a mere after-dinner mint for Short. But Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare, the first biography of the dictator since his death in 1998, weighs in at 650-plus pages, and is the most definitive...
...truth foretold. After lashing the Yankees in four straight games, the Red Sox went on to slaughter the Cardinals in a four game sweep. Boston?s height of glory came when they vanquished their archrival at Yankee Stadium on October 20. The Cardinals were an after dinner mint of sorts - and even the Sox didn?t chew on it gracefully. Both teams had low moments in the brief series, but the Sox pitching prevailed leaving the Cardinals empty-handed at the plate. So it was that the Boston Red Sox of 2004 became world champions of baseball...
...People will pay four dollars for a cup of coffee, even though it’s something that has been around for hundreds of years,” Rich says. “I figured that in the mint market, if we could make a really good mint that was also a fashion accessory, people would...
...moment came when talking to a friend trying to cut back on cigarettes. “He told me he just couldn’t get over the oral fixation,” Rich recalls. Instantly the idea crystallized in his head: “why not make a mint picking up on that psychological connection...