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...restore your sense of wonder breakfast in bed. But achieving the right effect is no quick fling for Woods: "To create a truly intimate moment with lasting impact, we need many personal insights, and that takes time." A resort favorite is a candle made from the flower of the Queen of the Night cactus, which is unique to the Sonoran and Chihuahua Deserts. The cactus only blooms one midsummer's night each year - but the afterglow of your Baja love-in will hopefully endure a bit longer than that. tel: (52-624) 144 2800; www.lasventanas.com
...took years to convince the British authorities that they had a significant homegrown Islamic threat," says a recently retired FBI counterterrorism official. "I remember being there in 1999, and one of our guys joked, 'If you don't start paying attention to the radical elements in your country, the Queen's going to be living in Ireland.' They didn't think that was very funny." Just in March, the British released a detainee called Abu Qatada, considered the spiritual leader of al-Qaeda in Europe. The British are watching Abu Qatada carefully, but authorities in half a dozen countries would...
...Britain and half in America--my first 21 years in Britain and my past 21 Stateside. But last week, I felt strangely as if I have lived in the same country all my life. In peril, the bonds deepen. I haven't forgotten how much I wept when the Queen ordered her guards to play The Star-Spangled Banner after 9/11; and last week, in the wake of London's bombings, New Yorkers were Londoners again. Rudy Giuliani was even on the scene...
...face of full-court lobbying by the British left him bitter. "What made us lose was fair play," Delanoe said from Singapore. In Paris, Pascal Bildstein, vice president of the French Triathlon Federation, was more explicit: "When Princess Anne promises all the IOC members an audience with the Queen, it's just not ethical. This was a victory for Anglo-Saxon lobbying, and a loss for real Olympic values...
With a $225 million paycheck, a gal gets used to a little special treatment. So when OPRAH WINFREY was denied entry to the Hermès store in Paris 15 minutes after closing time, the daytime queen got peeved. The ultra-luxury retailer later apologized for snubbing "Mme. Oprah," saying the store was setting up a "private public relations event." Winfrey told Hermès' U.S. president she would never shop at Hermès again. She will, though, discuss the event on her show. That means the media will finally address that age-old issue of social import: the right to browse...