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Owned and run by the Maloney family since 1995, Daintree has won a slew of tourism awards for its spa facilities, including being voted among the Top 10 Spa Retreats of the World in the 2005 Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards. Just don't arrive expecting gold faucets and air-conditioned walkways, says Cathy Maloney. "We don't want people to have preconceptions," she says. "We want them to leave with a feeling of well-being, of feeling more enriched for having come here...
...labor-market and tax reform. Even the Greens no longer stand in the way of market reforms, and can sound as fiscally responsible as Germany's postwar Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. "Our concern was never the redistribution of wealth, but rather justice between the generations," says Renate Künast, outgoing Minister for Agriculture and Consumer Protection and Fischer's successor as co-leader of the Green parliamentary group. Matthias Berninger, 34, the co-leader of the Greens in the Hesse state parliament, says he fights with other leading party members "about how much debt the state should take...
...title of her memoir aptly describes the gulf Gray perceived between her and her parents. Her mother, the vain and extravagant hat designer Tatiana, and her stepfather Alexander Liberman, who rose to become the editorial director of Condé Nast, were dedicated to each other and to their mutual ascent in post--World War II New York City society, lavishing attention on friends like Marlene Dietrich and Irving Penn but often neglecting the young woman sharing their home. The book is a brisk, bittersweet and ultimately forgiving look at two larger-than-life figures and the shadows they cast...
Another day, another unmasked East German spy. That ho-hum attitude greeted news that Bernd Runge, the head of U.S. magazine publisher Condé Nast's German business, worked for the hated Stasi secret police as a young East German journalist in the 1980s. Last week two German magazines, Focus and Der Spiegel, revealed that Runge, now 43, informed on fellow students and his own family, and spied on Western journalists. What's fascinating is that Germans barely raised an eyebrow, and Runge's American boss said his past has "no relevance." It's a far cry from the 1990s...
...dresses in floral patterns or colors. But brides, grooms and marrying mores have changed. Women tie the knot later in life (at about 27, in contrast to 22 a generation ago), and more than 1 in 4 couples pick up the tab for their wedding, according to the Conde Nast Bridal Group. As a result, modern newlyweds-to-be often plan nuptials to reflect their personalities rather than cater to the traditions of their parents' generation. At the same time, as the number of intercultural and interracial marriages has increased, so has the use of wedding-day color. "White...