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...small that they are often deserted, they make the perfect pit stop for a quick dip. This is also the route to the best hotel in the region - and some might say in Latin America - Ponta dos Ganchos (point of the hooks), named after the shape of the peninsula on which it's located. Guests staying in one of the 20 clifftop cabanas can enjoy seclusion, outstanding seafood and open-air spa tents overlooking the ocean. (This is also one of the few places you can get Christian Dior beauty treatments outside France.) Rooms start at around $700 per night...
...nonprofit research group based in Seoul, South Korea, announced that it would be donating $1 million to Harvard’s Korea Institute over a five-year period. The grants will be used to fund the Early Korea Project, an interdisciplinary inquiry into the premodern history of the Korean Peninsula. The aims of the Early Korea Project are admirable, and we applaud the Northeast Asian History Foundation for its generous and much-needed financial donation. While the study of premodern Korean history has been sidelined by much larger and better-funded inquiries into Chinese and Japanese history for many years...
...Florida's delegates at the Democratic convention this summer, essentially nullifying the state's Democratic primary results. The RNC banned some of Florida's delegates too, but it wasn't about to go as draconian as the Dems - whose candidates even signed a pact not to campaign on the peninsula before the primary - and risk weakening the stature of one of its most popular governors...
...declare that it would not seat Florida's 210 delegates at the party's convention next August in Denver, essentially declaring that Florida's primary wouldn't count. That also led Clinton, Obama, John Edwards and other Democratic hopefuls to sign a pact not to stump on the peninsula for the primary. (They signed a similar pledge for Michigan, which also jumped the Feb. 5 Super Tuesday primaries and held its primary Jan. 15. But unlike Michigan, all three major Dems are on the ballot in Florida...
...Indeed, when Lee is inaugurated next month, he will assume office at a crucial time for the Korean peninsula. In October, outgoing South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun met in Pyongyang with Kim Jong Il, marking just the second inter-Korean summit ever. The North may also be on the brink of a historic peace agreement with the U.S. - one that President George W. Bush, in his last year in office, appears to want desperately in order to shore up his controversial foreign-policy legacy. A deal between Washington and Pyongyang - predicated on the North verifiably giving up its nuclear...