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...enjoy a relaxing farm holiday in one of the nine peasant cottages among the vines and olive groves. The decor is rustic - simple furniture and no mod cons - but each cottage has a small garden and access to a quiet beach with mesmerizing views of the medieval walled town of Portoferraio. It's also here that John Le Carré set part of his best-selling novel, The Constant Gardener, and in his author's note he urges readers to visit: "There is even an oil room [once used for crushing olives, now for wine tastings] where those in search...
...He’s a track and field kid who was a prolific touchdown scorer in high school, a small high school in a kind of farm town in Illinois,” Murphy said. “He’s legit...
...fact, at some point during the so-called "neighbor's conference" convened by the Iraqi government and held in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, Rice may even go so far as meeting one-on-one with Mottaki. "I wouldn't rule it out," she told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "because this is not a meeting about the United States and Iran; this is a meeting about Iraq and about what Iraq's neighbors and interested parties can do to help stabilize the situation in Iraq...
...Union membership bid than any party before it. But its record is patchy. It also tried to pass a law that would criminalize adultery, and to appoint an Islamic banker as head of the central bank. Every day the papers carry a report of an AKP official in some town doing something outlandish - men and women being segregated at a municipal event, a swimming pool banning women from entering with their young sons (because they are male), bars being closed down to discourage alcohol consumption...
...TENET: I wasn't in the same geopolitical strategic loop. It brought the town a certain fixation about regime change in Iraq as the means and mechanism by which we will change the face of the Middle East and democratize the region. This was a compelling, unstated, overwhelming, you know, thought process on the part of these folks. This was the way to transform a region that needed transformation. And they thought about this in macro, big terms, sometimes without much understanding of the cultural context that this was all going to occur in. There was a quality of that...