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...same year the library and estate were completed—she married then Harvard geography professor Alexander Hamilton Rice. She spent the rest of her life globe-trotting and financing philanthropic institutions including the Red Cross before she died in 1937. The Miramar also served as a retreat house and boarding school for several different owners before it was purchased by Panteleakis...
...threats and actions aimed at securing concessions. It hasn't yet named a date, of course, and its statement makes clear that it wants a negotiated settlement with the U.S. at the end of the day. But testing a weapon would mark the crossing of a threshold over which retreat may be difficult. Only one country has ever dismantled an arsenal of actual nuclear weapons, and that was South Africa during the early 1990s, in one of the final acts of the outgoing apartheid regime...
With the opening of the 143-room Ista Bangalore hotel, istahotels.com, the owners of India's renowned Himalayan spa retreat, Ananda, are hoping to bring that same blissful spirit of rejuvenation to the country's high-tech hub. But the Ista is first and foremost a business hotel, so expect wi-fi Internet access in common areas, broadband in rooms and a business center open around the clock. Guest rooms are minimalist, with blond wood walls and understated furnishings. The healing powers of the rooms with a view of Ulsoor Lake are worth the upgrade. And the private gardens...
...only 15% of Europeans said that they attended a place of worship each week. Despite some last-minute lobbying by Poland, Italy and others, the draft of the E.U. constitution treaty finalized in 2004 omitted any mention of God or Christian values. But the familiar pattern of religion's retreat and secularism's advance now has to be reassessed. The wave of immigration from Muslim countries to Europe has catalyzed a new debate about the place of faith in public life. By varying estimates, up to 18 million Muslims now live in Western Europe, up from less than a million...
With the opening of the 143-room Ista Bangalore hotel, istahotels.com, the owners of India's renowned Himalayan spa retreat, Ananda, are hoping to bring that same blissful spirit of rejuvenation to the country's high-tech hub. But the Ista is first and foremost a business[an error occurred while processing this directive] hotel, so expect wi-fi Internet access in common areas, broadband in rooms and a business center open around the clock. Guest rooms are minimalist, with blond wood walls and understated furnishings. The healing powers of the rooms with a view of Ulsoor Lake are worth...