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...One of the few independent luxury hotels in the city (it is Vancouver’s only Relais & Châteaux member), it was opened in 1984 by Greece-born businesswoman Eleni Skalbania, a previous owner of the Hotel Georgia...
...C’est moi. Lilah Raptopoulos Yeah. Amazing....
...Georgia wears Gucci jersey dress with leather strings, £1,800....
...Only kidding, it’s 10°C, the smell is distinctly urban, and a steward soon appears with a loudspeaker....
...He is rescued by a WHO military team that swoops in on the body’s C-130 jet. In reality, the agency has no police powers at all. “We are not like Interpol,” says Schwartländer....
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...As they grow, icebergs eventually snap off at their edges, though not always as dramatically as the Delaware-sized slab that split from the Larsen C ice shelf last July....
...I thought about Michael Brown.’ . . . Criminals and bad guys know that and they have taken advantage of that.”...
...The cruise, from Petersburg to Sitka, costs C$7,758 (£4,187); mapleleafadventures.com Photographs: Peter Hughes...
...In Georgia, Michelle Nunn, the Democratic nominee in a close race, has raised $6.6m through April 30, far outpacing her two possible Republican opponents, according to FEC filings....
...Reclining seats from C$489 (£280) one-way; berths from C$970 This article has been amended since publication...
...Right now, Mr Brown is leading in early results against Josh Mandel, Ohio treasurer....
...Prices have fallen on a monthly basis for seven straight months and on an annual basis for 13 consecutive months, noted Jill Brown, vice-president of economics at Credit Suisse....
...Scott Brown, Republican senator from Massachusetts, introduced a bill last week and a group of Democrats are expected to put forward their own version this week....
...What A four-bedroom country house designed by architects Simpson and Brown, with vaulted ceilings and a galleried landing....
...The drink, which smells of apple brandy, burns the throat and stomach, even on a 35°C summer day....
...Nato looks poised to announce next month that it has found about 3,000 additional troops for deployment in Afghanistan, including pledges from non-Nato states such as Georgia and South Korea....
...Most critical and immediate are relations with Russia and the former Soviet republics, such as Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova and Belarus....
...Tom Brown, a former analyst who has published criticisms of BofA, said the appointment of a separate chairman was not going to change how the operation was run....
...In separate, written remarks, Mr Lavrov agreed with Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, that there was a danger of “de-globalisation” and a return to the “inertia of zero sum games”....
...I doubt that would work, and I share position of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who warned about the danger of ‘de-globalization.’...
...Elsewhere, the US lost ground in the Caucasus when the Russian army invaded Georgia, a pro-western former Soviet republic pressing for membership of Nato....
...Russia’s invasion of Georgia had put national security up in lights....
...Because no matter where I’ve been in this country – whether it was the corn fields of Iowa or the textile mills of the Carolinas; the streets of San Antonio or the foothills of Georgia – I’ve found that...
...In spite of his 86 years, his brown eyes twinkle with curiosity and good humour. He has a mysterious cut on the top of his domed skull. It is oozing blood....
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