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...amount of research for the novel” to create “the atmosphere of the country where [her] parents were born and raised.” Coupled with such a thorough historical backdrop, the novel is multi-faceted and runs the gamut from historical narrative to family mosaic. With “Inheritance” optioned for Hollywood, Chang has stayed busy writing and spending time at Harvard, where her classes are focused on the creative writing process. In English Crr.: “Beginning Fiction,” she emphasizes the stories of writers like Chekhov...
Basically it's a vast mosaic of tax breaks. Among the big winners: electric utilities (they'll save $3.1 billion over 10 years), the coal industry ($2.9 billion) and the oil-and-gas business ($2.7 billion). Consumers get tax credits for rooftop solar panels, $500 for home energy improvements and from $500 to $3,400 in credits for the purchase of hybrid gasoline-electric cars or other "cleaner" vehicles...
...former hideaways turned luxury hotels. The latest is the Kasbah Tamadot (virgin.com/kasbah), an 18-room property 50 minutes south of Marrakech, in the foothills of Morocco's High Atlas mountains. Branson, who bought it in 1998, spent years renovating the building. Today, its Moorish doors open onto mosaic-covered courtyards, azure reflecting pools, and terraced gardens, which cascade down to an infinity pool that's ringed by rosebushes, fruit trees and cactus plants...
...former hideaways turned luxury hotels. The latest is the Kasbah Tamadot (virgin.com/kasbah), an 18-room property 50 minutes south of Marrakech, in the foothills of Morocco's High Atlas mountains. Branson, who bought it in 1998, spent years renovating the building. Today, its Moorish doors open onto mosaic-covered courtyards, azure reflecting pools, and terraced gardens, which cascade down to an infinity pool that's ringed by rosebushes, fruit trees and cactus plants. Rooms and suites are multistoried affairs stocked with antiques, and all feature spacious balconies with sweeping mountain views. An indoor pool, a spa, a rooftop restaurant...
Like Historian Raul Hilberg, who bears eloquent witness in Shoah, Lanzmann did not begin his mammoth project by "asking the big questions." Instead he amassed thousands of details--the exact size of the gas chambers, the regimen of the SS killer-bureaucrats--and arranged them in a vast mosaic that exposes but does not explain the mystery of extermination. Many of the details are riveting. Former SS Officer Franz Suchomel (whom Lanzmann filmed with a camera concealed in his shoulder bag) sings the Treblinka marching song--"No Jew knows that today"--and describes a pit that consumed discarded bodies: "There...