Word: villas
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...Cuffaro, hit the campaign trail ahead of his re-election bid this Sunday. During a morning presentation of his policy platform, the stout and smiling 48-year-old was sharing two-cheek kisses with almost every supporter who passed through campaign headquarters. Later, he arrived at the poorly-equipped Villa Sofia Hospital in northern Palermo to pledge four new outpatient beds for a multiple sclerosis treatment center. The 100 or so patients and family members assembled in the steamy third-floor corridor were a bit testy with the late-in-the-race promises, but Cuffaro cooled them down and eventually...
...pianist Alexis M. Kusy ’07 although she says that might change.Julia I. Bertelsmann ’09 is part of another similarly assembled group which will perform the folk-inspired “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 for Eight Celli” by Brazilian composer Hector Villa-Lobos. “We’ve only rehearsed six or seven times,” Bertelsmann says cheerfully. “We’re just a bunch of eager cellists.” The group will perform at 3 p.m. in Paine Hall. But not everyone...
...corporate escapes. But their boutique-size spa has none of the hauteur you might expect at the Ritz. With room for only 30 guests, Daintree is so private that visitors are more likely to encounter a white-lipped tree frog than a fellow guest when they walk from their villa to the spa or the main dining room, the scent of quandong oil trailing behind them. Most guests?half of whom are overseas residents?head straight for the spa, where treatments range from the one-hour Walu BalBal facial, which uses wattle seeds and lillypilly berries, to the resort...
...this is," says Loudermilk. "It's very outside of hippie and hemp." Her creations including organic silk--charmeuse gowns, men's bamboo suits and women's separates made from an antibacterial Japanese fabric called sasawashi are sold around the world at stores like Atrium in New York City and Villa Moda Lifestyle in Kuwait...
...Villa Tevere, the Rome headquarters of Opus Dei, a couple of dozen men convened in a chamber similar to the one in which The Da Vinci Code's Bishop Aringarosa was handed ?20 million in Vatican bonds to set his nefarious plot in motion. From London, Paris, Milan, Madrid, New York City, Lagos and Montreal they had come, to draft a plan against a man they felt posed the most virulent threat to their order: director Ron Howard...