Hints and tips:
...Ang Lama, a Sherpa, is from the village of Phaplu....
...Her famous friends and guests – from Peter Sellers to Maria Callas, the Dalai Lama to Johnny Cash – were too....
...Since Balthus moved here in 1977, the Grand Chalet has welcomed musicians (think Bono and Bowie), artists (too many to mention), actors including Richard Gere and Tony Curtis and, of course, the Dalai Lama...
...“Cultural change is very slow,” says Marta Lamas, a professor at Mexico’s UNAM university, who has fought for women’s rights for half a century....
...Comes with an endorsement from the Dalai Lama, no less....
...From the second disc, “Mountain Blessings” combines an Alpine “Ave Maria” from Curti with a prayer to the light of the lamp from Sawani Shende Sathaye....
...Jagdgut Wachtelhof, Urslaustrasse 7, A-5761 Maria Alm - Hinterthal (+436584-23888; www.hotelwachtelhof.at). The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Alberto Giacometti....
...Dressed in bespoke Hawaiian by designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, the intervening years may have burnished those really, really ridiculously good looking faces, but no matter....
...The movie opens with him being interviewed by the real-life CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo and talking fluently about “quants” and “derivative structuring”....
...Also in Peru, Southern Copper’s Tia Maria project was scrapped after the government ruled it “unacceptable” following protests....
...Mr González’s right-wing successor, José María Aznar, was less committed to European integration....
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