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...will never know why. Yet who can ever fathom the evil that men do. We stand disbelieving before genocide, when women's throats are slit with sharp palm leaves, when children's heads are smashed against tree trunks, when men are slaughtered with the crack of a hoe. These things happened every day in Cambodia for 3 1/2 terrible years, and when the world learned of it, people could only respond with dumb horror...
MARY BONO Bests Pa Walton for the Palm Springs seat in Congress...
...first rays of a Mediterranean morning bathe the island in languid warmth, its unique features emerge in gentle relief: towering megalithic monuments, colonial facades, a pristine expanse of beach. Along the palm-fringed harbors, sailboats nudge their moorings, and beach lovers prepare for another round of sun, sea and sand. This is an island of captivating contrasts...
...present-day abbey consists of hewn-stone buildings with red tiled roofs, pointed arches and stained-glass windows, well-tended gardens, courtyards and sprawling palm trees. There are modern touches: a fax in the office, solar panels in the garden. The wing in which visitors stay was renovated within the decade...
...Club moves slowly at 8 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. A few guests drink coffee under 18th-century oil portraits in the ground floor Reading Room. A buffet is spread on a large table in one of the three main dining rooms, where breakfasters sit beside potted palm trees...