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...hard to prevent Ortega from being elected, even threatening to cut aid to Nicaragua if he won the election, and some investors fear the consequences of any move by Washington to make life difficult for a Sandinista government. Says Chris Berry, owner of San Juan del Sur's landmark Pelican Eyes Piedras y Olas Resort, "Everyone here is more afraid of what the U.S. will do than they are of Ortega...
...easygoing tone is set by Sciò's father and namesake, who bought the place on a whim in 1979. Roberto Sr. had been a regular customer since the early days of the hotel, established in 1965 by English pilot Michael Graham who named it after the equally dramatic Pelican Point in California. Sciò remodeled the hotel and put new luster on the elegantly understated gold and cream rooms and suites - virtually all with an outdoor space of their own. The centerpiece, however, is the expanded kitchen and open-air dining space that brought home the fruits with...
Five months into his first term, T.R. launches his trust-busting campaign by suing the Northern Securities Co. He also establishes himself as a conservationist, creating Crater Lake National Park in Oregon (the first of five such parks he designates) and proclaiming Pelican Island, Fla., the first federal bird reservation. (He will set up 50 more.) Other highlights include his July 4, 1903, "Square Deal" speech in Springfield, Ill., and the treaty with Panama to build the Panama Canal...
...Athena Theater Company to merge two of Strindberg’s later plays. They have successfully created a coherent narrative, linking the themes of the abstract and dense “The Isle of the Dead” with the more expository language of “The Pelican.” Seen from the perspective of a dead man (James M. Leaf ’09) who must face his past before leaving it behind, “Pelican” tells the story of a mother (Jennifer J. Malin ’09)—presumably...
When “Pelican” opened in the Loeb Experimental Theatre last night, it represented a unique amalgamation of less known and less recognized elements of theater: one of the plays that forms the basis of the adaptation, “The Pelican,” had not been performed at Harvard in over 30 years. The other, “The Isle of the Dead,” had never been performed in the United States. The director of “Pelican,” on the other hand, represents an amalgamation of an entirely different...