Word: solano
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...including a bottle of Cakebread wine and tastings at two other local wineries. The rate also includes breakfast, so you don't go off on vineyard tours with an empty stomach. The hotel is also discounting spa services by 20%. Book through April 30 and mention code M11. 3425 Solano Avenue, Napa...
...most of its history, Paraguay has been almost a caricature of the right-wing South American military republic. Its infamous 19th-century dictator, General Francisco Solano Lopez had his own mother flogged in public and then made the nation's Roman Catholic bishops declare him a saint; its equally villainous 20th-century tyrant, General Alfredo Stroessner, turned the country into a haven for Nazi war criminals. Ever since, Paraguay has struggled to be seen as something more than a benighted agricultural backwater wedged between Brazil and Argentina...
...slow. Reading is slow. You have to take your time with it. THC: What are your thoughts on your past nomination for the Pulitzer Prize? KS: I was very pleased. But I don’t think it made a difference. I think it was fun that Louisa Solano, who ran the Grolier at the time, threw a party. That was fun. By the time a book is finished you are so much involved in the next book really—because the production of the book takes a bit of time. So you’re already in your...
...result, the poor have no choice but to accept insecurity and instability as a way of life. But when governments grant people legal means to control their assets, they empower them to invest and plan for the future. In San Francisco Solano, a barrio outside Buenos Aires, Argentine economists studied the experience of two communities--one that received title to its land in the early 1980s, another that did not. The group of neighbors that had received legal title to its land surpassed the group without title in a range of social indicators, including quality of house construction, education levels...
...says. “They are the good guys in our opinion. They have made it possible for a folk music club like ours to really flourish in the Square.” The former owner of The Grolier Poetry Shop on Plympton Street, Louisa Solano, also credits Harvard with helping her store survive when it was struggling.Frank Kramer, the owner of the Harvard Book Store next door to Grolier, also believes the University, which is also his landlord, has been very supportive over the years.“They don’t charge top dollar rent...