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Joe Pulitzer famously said, "A newspaper should have no friends." Looking at the massed ranks of America's elites attending Katharine Graham's funeral in Washington on July 23, it's maybe churlish to recall that phrase, but it's true. At least in political terms, Mrs. Graham had way too many friends.
The twin decisions, concerning the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, that made Mrs. Graham's name as a courageous publisher came at precisely the moment when, in biographical terms, she was best equipped to handle pressure. She'd had eight years to overcome the timidities that bore down on her after Phil Graham's suicide left her with a newspaper she resolved to run herself. The amiable but essentially conservative bipartisanship that had the notables of each incoming administration (Carter-time excepted) palavering happily in her dining room hadn't yet numbed the Post's spinal nerve.
Mrs. Graham sustained her fatal fall during an annual confab of the nation's biggest media and e-billionaires, organized by the investment banker Herb Allen and held in Sun Valley, Idaho. It was a proper setting for her passing. Sun Valley was developed as a resort by the Harrimans, starting with the nineteenth-century railroad bandit E.H. Harriman. That quintessential insider, Averell Harriman was often to be seen at Mrs. Graham's house in Georgetown.
Mrs. Graham didn't strong-arm her editors and reporters, they say. But editors and reporters aren't slow to pick up hints as to the disposition of the person who pays their wages, and she sent out plenty such clues.
In late 1974, after Nixon had been tumbled, Mrs. Graham addressed the Magazine Publishers' Association and issued a warning: "The press these days should...be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about overinvolvement that we had better overcome. We had better not yield to the temptation to go on refighting the next war and see conspiracy and cover-up where they do not exist." She called for a return to basics. Journalists should stop trying to be sleuths. In other words: The party's over, boys and girls! It's not your business to rock the boat.
Mrs. Graham had plenty of reasons, material and spiritual, to find excessive boat-rocking distasteful. The family fortune, and the capital that bought and nourished the Post, was founded in part on Allied Chemical, the company run by her father, Eugene Meyer. I remember a hard edge in her voice when she deplored "those fucking environmentalists"--perhaps because rabble-rousers had derisively taunted her as "Kepone Kate" after a bad Allied Chemical spill in the James River. Yes, privately her language was agreeably salty.
By the early 1980s the leftish liberal Kay Graham of the late 1930s, who would associate as a tyro reporter with the red longshoreman leader Harry Bridges on the Oakland docks, was long gone. For one thing, there had been the ferocious pressmen's strike in 1975, and the successful lockout. Rhetorically, at least, Mrs. Graham did not later make the gaffe of equating the sabotage of her plant by the Pressmen's Union with the disposition of the AFL-CIO, but I don't think she ever forgave labor; and that strike helped set Mrs. Graham and her newspaper on its sedately conservative course.
In the early 1980s she associated increasingly with Warren Buffett, the Nebraska investor who bought 13 percent of the Post's B stock and who was then riding high as America's most venerated stock player. Mrs. Graham simultaneously became a big-picture mogul, pickling herself in the sonorous platitudes of the Brandt Commission, on which she served.
The best evidence of the Post's decline, symbolic of what Mrs. Graham had overseen, was a seven-part, multi-thousand-word series published in January 1992. The series launching that election year was by two prominent Post reporters, David Broder and Bob Woodward, who "for six months followed the Vice President everywhere" and "spent an unprecedented amount of time interviewing Mr. Quayle," discovering after these labors that the derided veeplet was a much underestimated statesman of discriminating stature.
In the early 1990s I used to get copies of letters sent to the Post's editors and ombudsman by Julian Holmes, a Maryland resident with a career in the Navy Weapons Lab, who read the Post diligently every day, firing off often acute and pithy criticisms. In all, Holmes told me the other day from his Maine home, he sent some 130 such letters to the Post and achieved a perfect record of zero published.
Deploring the Quayle series in a letter sent to ombudsman Richard Harwood on January 22, 1992, Holmes pointed out that nowhere in the "in-depth" exam of Quayle could be found the words crime, public land, population, healthcare, oil, capital punishment, United Nations, Nicaragua, unemployment, homeless or AIDS.
No need to labor the point. The basic mistake is to call the Washington Post a liberal paper, or its late proprietor a liberal in any active sense, unless you want to disfigure the word by applying it to such of her friends as Robert McNamara. When it came to war criminals she was an equal opportunity hostess. In her salons you could meet Kissinger, an old criminal on the way down, or Richard Holbrooke, a younger 'un on the way up. The Post's basic instincts have almost always been bad.
Former Mayor Marion Barry had some pro forma kindly words for Katharine Graham after her death, but I always think that one decisive verdict on the Post's performance in a city with a major black population came with the jury verdict acquitting Barry on the cocaine bust. Those jurors knew that the Post, along with the other Powers That Be, was on the other side from Barry, and I've no doubt that firmed up their assessment of the evidence. In that quarter, for sure, neither the Post nor Mrs. Graham had an excessive number of friends.
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"I admit it. The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures."
--The real William Kristol,
The New Yorker, May 22, 1995
"The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much apology for liberal policy failures. Too much pandering to liberal candidates and causes."
--William Kristol imposter, in a Weekly Standard subscription pitch, June 2001
Remember when the Times's Frank Bruni thought George Bush's boots "peeked out mischievously" from beneath his trousers in Mexico? Well, Bruni's condition--enabled by apparent narcolepsy on the part of his editors--appears to be deteriorating. First, there's the prose. Bruni noted that upon meeting Tony Blair, Bush "broke into a smile, indulged a mischievous impulse and offered him a greeting less formal than the ones the British leader usually hears. 'Hello, Landslide!' Mr. Bush shouted out. It was a reference--an irreverent, towel-snapping one at that--to Mr. Blair's recent re-election, and it recalled the playful dynamic...when he cracked during a news conference that he and Mr. Blair liked the same brand of toothpaste." An "irreverent, towel-snapping" reference? Methinks Bruni spent too much time in the sauna. Recalling the "playful dynamic" of the toothpaste "crack"--how about "doltish" dynamic? And, hello, Blair did actually win in a landslide. (And so should have Gore!) Now, if the Prime Minister had greeted the Court-appointed Bush as "Landslide," that might qualify as "irreverent."
Perhaps the Times editors might also be willing to offer us a short seminar on the rules and purpose of the official "background" quotation in their newspaper. Two days before he began snapping presidential towels, Bruni quoted a "senior administration official" offering up the following explanation of the European reaction to Bush's missile defense proposal, in language identical to that frequently used by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. "It was, 'We very much appreciate the President's decisions to consult fully, we understand that there is a threat, we want to work with the United States.'"
We have a few problems here. First off, the statement is false. One paragraph earlier, French President Jacques Chirac, who, after all, is one of the people reacting, is quoted condemning the idea as a "fantastic incentive to proliferate" (which Vladimir Putin proved almost immediately by promising to "reinforce our capability by mounting multiple warheads on our missiles" should Bush go ahead with missile defense). Second, Bush, who presumably outranks said "senior official," offered up virtually the same quote on the record. "Still pumped up," according to Bruni, Bush professed to detect "a willingness for countries to think differently and to listen to different points of view." The Times rolls over because someone in the Administration finds it convenient to spin reporters and readers while avoiding responsibility for her (?) misleading comments. I know why "senior officials" do this, but why does the Times allow it?
And finally, before bidding adieu to Mr. Bruni, how long are we going to keep reading stories celebrating the fact that the President did not pick his nose in public? "Rarely," Bruni wrote, "have the two nations' leaders so surpassed the limited expectations of their meeting." Oh really? How rarely? Whose expectations? How limited? Limited to what? I guess Bush surpassed the expectations of those who didn't know he could see into people's souls, but I don't think pandering to viewers of the Psychic Friends Network is going to help much when it comes to missile defense.
George Will...calls Chris Matthews "half-Huck Finn, half-Machiavelli."
--New York magazine, June 18, 2001
"Imagine if you will, a guitar-wielding political synthesis of Huck Finn and Machiavelli..."
--Eric Alterman, "GOP Chairman Lee Atwater: Playing Hardball,"
The New York Times Magazine, April 30, 1989
Number of weeks the New York Post's new editor took to fire Jack Newfield, its most distinguished and only liberal columnist: six. Weeks it took same to fire the Post's only black editor, who, by the way, has breast cancer: same.
While we're on the topic of the Post, Rupert Murdoch, who has already been granted more than his share of waivers to hold on to his extremist, Republican/Chinese Communist-pandering scandal sheet, is now back before the Senate communications subcommittee, seeking yet another special antidemocratic dispensation to allow him to become the first mogul to control, in addition to the Post and The Weekly Standard, a major broadcast network (Fox), a major cable network (FNC) and soon, a fast-growing satellite distribution system that already has 10 million subscribers (DirecTV). If this sounds like an Orwellian nightmare to you, to say nothing of the onslaught of right-wing sleaze, sensationalism and suck-ups to torturers it will likely produce, contact the committee at (202) 224-5184 (phone) and (202) 224-9334 (fax), and get on their case.
The Supreme Court, in the final week of June, handed down three decisions, each of which seems to endorse a valuable social principle.
In the first, involving the right of legal immigrants who have pleaded guilty to crimes in the past to a judicial review of deportation proceedings, the Court upheld the principle that no matter who you are, you are entitled to your day in court.
In the second case, the High Court affirmed the right of writers and artists to share in the wealth made possible by the new media. The case was brought by a group of freelancers who objected to the inclusion of their work in electronic databases without permission or remuneration; the group was led by Jonathan Tasini, the president of the National Writers Union and a man with an admirable mission.
In the third case, the Supreme Court made it more possible for Congress to provide correctives to the influence of money in politics by upholding Watergate-era limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for federal office. Had the Court eliminated the restrictions, it would have legitimized the parties as cash-laundering machines for donors.
Left to be determined, in all three cases, are the appropriate remedies for the ills the rulings addressed, and the difficulty of fashioning these should not be underestimated. But it is heartening to see the Court acting in its proper role as the guardian of both the individual and society.
The census makes clear about Latinos what many of us have known for a long time: The power of culture and character is now reinforced by demographics. From a small minority struggling to achieve legitimate power, Latinos have become a very important group politically, one that must now learn how to use power. At this point the role of Latinos in the public world changes. They begin to appear more often in the general media, although not yet in what anyone would consider equitable proportion, and the marketers pay even greater attention to Spanish-language media. Democrats want to know what Latinos can do for them and Republicans want to know what Latinos are willing to trade for their votes. The question of what Latinos want for themselves is seldom raised. Even in the left/liberal press, coverage of Latino issues has been sparse. And what has appeared has been limited mainly to reportage.
There should, of course, be more reporting about Latinos rather than less, but there must be other kinds of writing as well. The reason for this seems obvious: The use of power is more complex than the struggle to obtain power. The dialogue among Latinos--rather than merely about them--on issues that affect the Latino community and the rest of the world should now appear with some regularity in the national left/liberal press.
There are many questions best debated by Latinos: What are the intergenerational conflicts, and how do they affect politics? Should ethnic loyalties trump political values at the polls? What is gained and what is lost by assimilation? Should Latinos criticize Latino elected officials? Will such criticism strengthen the community or tear it apart, vitiating its hard-won power? How can people of differing national origin within the community link with each other, and how can Latinos link with blacks, Asians, Jews, Native Americans and other minority groups? How should left/liberal Latinos deal with the growing Latino middle class and its rightward turn? These and other issues should be debated openly by Latinos, in a way and in publications that will also inform the thinking of non-Latinos.
Unfortunately, Latino voices have been little more than a whisper in the left/liberal press, including The Nation. And the kind of essayistic pieces born of the desire to influence the use of power are virtually unknown. Yet, there are more than enough good Latino writers, with an interesting variety of opinions. What must happen, in my opinion, will require some effort from Latino writers and from the national left/liberal press. The writers must make their ideas known to the editors, and the editors must try to discern the importance of the work presented to them.
In the great tradition of the left/liberal press, the result will be rages and rancors, but there will also be some incremental advance toward freedom and social justice. Perhaps the disagreements over the language and timing of this piece will provide a useful beginning.
The Kerrey revelations raise anew issues of morality and military power.
Christ killing has been back in the news. It seems that my ancestors are once again catching hell for their alleged betrayal of God's son, this time from fundamentalist Christian basketball player Charlie Ward and fundamentalist Christian political organizer Paul Weyrich.
Speaking to The New York Times Magazine, the New York Knicks' point guard set off a controversy in April when he informed a Jewish reporter, "Jews are stubborn.... why did they persecute Jesus unless he knew something they didn't want to accept?" and added, "They had his blood on their hands."
If you read about this and thought, Who cares what some basketball player says about who killed Christ?, I'm with you. And if you were wondering whether the New York Knicks organization, the National Basketball Association or Madison Square Garden also blame the Jews for the Crucifixion, well, you can relax about that too. All three have helpfully issued statements putting that rumor to rest. But two people who have seemed oddly sympathetic are Florida Secretary of State Katherine (Cruella De) Harris and Governor Jeb (Fredo) Bush.
Cruella chose Ward, who won the Heisman Trophy playing college football in Florida, as the state's "Born to Read" literacy campaign spokesman. When the local chapter of the American Jewish Committee asked her to reconsider in light of the fact that the guy was spreading what used to be called a "blood libel"--one that has led, historically, to the murder of countless Jews, who happen to make up a significant portion of the state's citizenry--she demurred. That's when Fredo stepped in: "If we're going to become so rigid as a country to be able to disallow speech, even though it may not be politically correct, I think we're in danger."
Strictly speaking, the First Little Bro was absolutely right. But his statement had nothing to do with the controversy it purported to address. Nobody is denying Ward's right to speak as an ignorant anti-Semite, or even to play point guard in this highly Jewish metropolis as one. The issue is whether, in light of his comments about Jews, he remains the best possible representative of Florida's literacy campaign. Bush seems to have taken to its logical extreme the conservative habit of labeling any community standards of speech, no matter how sensible, "political correctness" gone mad, unless they involve protecting a citizen's right to threaten the lives of abortion doctors or to own assault rifles. If Democrats in the land of King Condo can't beat this anti-Semite-enabling creep next year, they should find another country.
Another staunch defender of the anti-Semites' right to blood-libel Jews is David Horowitz. When Paul Weyrich announced on his Free Congress website that "Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities.... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death," a previously obscure right-wing pundit named Evan Gahr denounced him quite sensibly as an anti-Semite. The denunciation went up on Horowitz's website, which, like Weyrich's Free Congress movement, is heavily funded by conspiracy nut Richard Mellon Scaife. But it was ordered expunged by the same fellow who can currently be found whining at your local college about his own victimization at the hands of something he calls "the fascist Left."
While an unhealthy proportion of the far right has always had a soft spot for this kind of theological anti-Semitism, virtually all mainstream Christian churches have explicitly repudiated it. But Gahr was not only informed that his work would no longer be welcome on Horowitz's generously funded site; he was kicked off the masthead of The American Enterprise, the magazine published by the Scaife-funded think tank of the same name. Next, the Scaife-funded Hudson Institute, where Gahr had been employed (and Norman Podhoretz still is), also sent him packing. Stanley Crouch, the neo-neoconservative, compared the right's treatment of Gahr to a Stalinist purge ("Horowitz and Stalin: Together Again").
Personally, I can live with the injustice done to Gahr, who first came to attention as a media gossip/hatchetman for Rupert Murdoch's New York Post. Live by conservative attack-dog tactics, die by them, I say. But what does it reveal about modern-day American conservatives that they cannot countenance a denunciation from within their ranks of the kind of ignorant anti-Semitic remark that has historically led to mass murder?
Horowitz notes, allegedly in Weyrich's defense, that he made his statement in his "capacity as a Melkite Greek Catholic deacon." He might have made it in his capacity as the Pillsbury Doughboy for all the difference it makes. Weyrich, as Joe Conason pointed out, has long been swimming in anti-Semitic sewers. There's his early involvement with George Wallace's American Independent Party, along with his foundation's long association with Laszlo Pastor, who was convicted of Nazi collaboration for his World War II role in the violently anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler Hungarian Arrow Cross Party, and who was tossed off the Bush/Quayle campaign in 1988. Conason notes that another longtime Weyrich aide served on the editorial board of the Ukrainian Quarterly, an ethnic rightist publication strongly influenced by former Nazi collaborators.
All in all, it's rather odd that somebody--however deluded--who claims to be both a Jew and a champion of free speech should be censoring a writer who condemns the most disgusting kind of anti-Semitism, but then again, it's a bit counterintuitive to find a governor who also happens to be the President's brother defending his state's right to choose the same type of anti-Semite to represent it to children and others trying to learn to read.
No wonder Jim Jeffords wanted nothing to do with these goofballs. One Republican, writing on the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, has already accused the Vermonter of a "pattern of betrayal." I sure hope Jeffords has a good alibi for Good Friday, 33 AD.
Strange as it may seem, Timothy McVeigh and George W. Bush shared the same analysis of McVeigh's execution Monday morning, June 11, in Terre Haute. The Oklahoma City bomber, intoned Bush, "met the fate he chose for himself six years ago"--the perfect mirror of McVeigh's own vision of himself as "the master of my fate," in his citation of William Ernest Henley's "Invictus."
The notion of "fate"--a predetermined outcome--sanitizes state-sponsored killing even as it fulfills McVeigh's megalomaniacal delusions. But fate had nothing to do with it. Death sentences are a matter of caprice rather than legal predetermination, as evinced by the twenty-one of twenty-three federal death-row inmates remaining in Terre Haute whose "fate" was to be born nonwhite. Myth: "The severest sentence for the gravest of crimes," as Bush declared that Monday, employing McVeigh as a handy fig leaf for a federal death row even more racially out of kilter than its state counterparts. Reality: The capital trial norm remains "the death penalty not for the worst crime, but the worst lawyer," in the words of litigator Stephen Bright.
One salient political and legal fact received scant consideration Monday: Because it was a federal execution, McVeigh's killing was the first in two generations on behalf of all of us. But "all of us," or even the majority of us, no longer support the death penalty. The government has gone back into the killing business at the very moment when the national capital punishment consensus has eroded, as indicated by polls showing support for death sentences slipping below 50 percent if replaced by life terms without parole. McVeigh's execution was supposed to turn this trend around. Instead, the FBI's documents blunder and the generally sordid spectacle from Terre Haute only fed public unease.
Sanitizing was pretty much the universal order of business Monday. The news media made much of their sensitivity to Oklahoma City's survivors. But only the Daily Oklahoman consistently noted the diversity of survivor opinion on McVeigh's execution, and among broadcasters only KWTW, an Oklahoma City station, reported that nearly a third of the 325 people who had reserved chairs for the closed-circuit telecast elected not to show up. And only the Chicago Tribune has bothered to report--in an interview with an anesthesiologist shortly before McVeigh's original execution date in May--that lethal injection deaths like McVeigh's are often far more painful than they may appear to witnesses. The closed-circuit telecast of McVeigh's killing also offered powerful ammunition against the argument from some leading abolitionists that public broadcasts of executions would lead to widespread outrage against them. "It was such a peaceful death. That made it more palatable," witness Archie Blanchard said on NBC, after confessing that before the telecast it had been "hard to think about being there."
Also missing from press coverage was any recognition of McVeigh's forgotten conspirators. Not John Doe #2, but the wide range of "mainstream" right-wing politicians and broadcasters and publishers and gun lobbyists who exploited the Branch Davidian deaths in Waco with wild conspiracy theories, ratifying McVeigh's delusional rage and naming his enemy. Just a few of those sharing collateral guilt: the National Rifle Association, which not long before Oklahoma City called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms "jack-booted government thugs, federal agents wearing Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms to attack law-abiding citizens"; Representative Helen Chenoweth, who declared that America's national parks had been taken over by the United Nations; Senator Bob Smith, who temporarily dropped his GOP affiliation in favor of the paranoid, antigovernment populists of the US Taxpayers Party; and antichoice fanatics who pointed the way to Oklahoma City with their abortion clinic bombings in the early nineties. It is easier to treat Tim McVeigh as an inexplicable aberration who can be evicted from history than to recall just how widely evident were obsessions like his.
President Bush and Attorney General Ashcroft now turn their attention to Juan Raul Garza, scheduled for execution on June 19. In between, Bush traveled to Europe, arriving in Spain, which was in an uproar over a falsely convicted Spanish citizen recently released from Florida's death row. America's death penalty has for years baffled our European partners, but it is only now becoming a serious diplomatic and political issue. France is refusing to extradite Buffalo abortion doctor shooter James Kopp until prosecutors agree to spare him from capital charges, and Germany is suing the United States over the execution of a German national who was never informed of his consular rights. In Ireland, voters on June 7 overwhelmingly approved a referendum permanently abolishing capital punishment from the country's Constitution. Capital punishment now isolates the US abroad as it divides Americans at home. The McVeigh execution, instead of marking a new era of federalized capital punishment, may turn out to be the high-water mark before the long-overdue retreat of the capital punishment tide.
Now that Timothy McVeigh has been executed, I suppose we're all supposed to stop talking about it--to "enjoy closure," a bit like the election.
But McVeigh's execution was troubling on so many levels, it's hard to know where to begin. It was alarming to watch the procedural impatience, the official "just get it over with" mentality, despite defense lawyers' not having had a chance to go through more than 4,000 pages of FBI documents that no one disputes ought to have been turned over before McVeigh's trial.
It was distressing to hear the semantic shiftiness of our President as he described the event. To us individualists at home, he said that it was McVeigh who "chose" this method of reckoning; to a European audience it was "the will of the people in the United States." Like some libertarian Pontius Pilate, Bush washed his hands of any responsibility, skillfully uncoupling the role of the executive from execution. It's bad enough to have a death penalty; it is positively chilling when the chief poohbah shrugs it off as though helpless, assigning federally engineered death to forces beyond him.
It was incredible to see anti-death penalty commentators apologizing constantly, always having to blither "of course no one condones his actions"--as though arguing for life imprisonment made one the squishiest, most bleeding-heart of moral equivocators. As a New York Times commentary observed, "Experts said it was the wrong case to debate--many people who do not approve of the death penalty wanted Mr. McVeigh to die."
Yet if one really wants to test the commitment of a civilization to its expressed principles of justice, the McVeigh case is exactly the right case to debate. There was little question as to his guilt (even if the question of conspiracy remains an open one in some quarters), his crime was inexpressibly reprehensible and he maintained a demeanor of controlled, remorseless calculation to the end. In other words, it is precisely the dimension of his evil that presses us to consider most seriously the limits of state force. The question is whether we want to license our government to kill, rather than just restrain by imprisoning, the very worst among us.
Much recent debate about capital punishment has focused on probabilities: the repeated demonstration that "beyond a reasonable doubt" is a matter of considerable uncertainty and outright error. I have recommended before Actual Innocence by Jim Dwyer, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, and I do so here again. These lawyers' work with the Innocence Project has led to dozens of releases from death row and to calls for moratoriums in states where pro-death penalty sentiment once ran high.
There is also the question of disparate impact, particularly upon minorities and the poor. "There are no racial overtones in [McVeigh's] conviction," wrote the New York Times in an editorial. Perhaps that's true if considered in a vacuum, but certainly not with regard to its procedural legacy. If the FBI couldn't get right the most important and supposedly most careful investigation in its history--and still no stay was granted--then there is no hope in any other case. McVeigh's "nonracial" fate, moreover, will surely be invoked highhandedly in all those more routine, less highly scrutinized cases. The fact that of the remaining federal death row inmates only two are white is, according to John Ashcroft, merely "normal." For more on this aspect of the debate, I recommend reading Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future, by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. and The Nation's own Bruce Shapiro. Forthcoming from The New Press, it is an eloquent argument against the inequity of the death penalty's administration and makes a compelling case against its violent irreversibility, its unredeemable finality as pursued by prosecutors, judges and juries who are, after all, far from all-knowing or divine.
One of the saddest parts of the McVeigh saga was listening to the endlessly amplified testimonials of those survivors and family members whose sentiments were premised on vengeance being "mine" rather than the Lord's. One woman wished the electric chair had been used, because it would have been more painful. Another said, "I think bombs should be strapped on him, and then he can walk around the room forever until they went off and he wouldn't know when it would happen."
Such traumatized expectations led to predictable disappointment. "I really wanted him to say something," said one witness. "I wanted him to see me," said another. "I thought I would feel something more satisfying, but I don't," said a victim's son. "For him just to have gone asleep seems unfair." This sort of desire for "more" leaves us poised on the edge of an appetite for re-enacted violence and voyeurism. Given the horrific losses McVeigh's crime incurred, this primal hunger can be almost seductive--a howl of mourning very hard to resist, never mind debate. But it is dangerous if it allows us to lose sight of the fact that the debate we must have is, again, about the limits of state force, not about devising the perfect mirror of each victim's suffering.
But the bottomlessness of that individual trauma is not something we can afford to ignore either. For a wise and extremely moving reflection on this dimension, I recommend Susan Brison's Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self, forthcoming from Princeton. Brison, a Dartmouth College philosophy professor who was raped, strangled and left for dead, analyzes the post-traumatic stress syndrome that still colors her life and reflects on the resilience needed to carry on. "Trauma," she writes, "destroys the illusion of control over one's life. It fractures the chronology of a life's narrative--not in the way a stopped watch makes time look like it's standing still, but like the thirteenth chime of a crazy clock that throws everything that came before into question."
"9:03" reads an inscription on the Oklahoma City National Memorial. Would that we could undo that awful moment in Oklahoma City by sacrificing McVeigh's one life for all the others, but the difficult paradox of healing is having to live on and through that wilderness of grief with no illusion of control.


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Doc on Dirk: There's never been a player like him
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Doc Rivers has seen plenty of great players in his time as a player and coach in the NBA.
But he says he's never seen one like Dirk Nowitzki.
What makes the 7-foot big man so special is his ability to roam the court like a guard.
"I don't think there's ever been a player like Dirk, honestly," Rivers said. "He's a rare [player]. He's literally an original. There's been seven-footers who can shoot, there's been seven-footers who can pass but there's been none who can do all of them."
[Listen to Rivers rave about Dirk]
Reggie Miller was in town Monday night, doing the TNT broadcast with Kevin McHale. And Rivers had the chance to chat with the NBA's all-time leading three-point specialist.
"I was laughing with Reggie Miller," Rivers said. "They're running plays for Dirk that we run for Ray Allen and teams [used to] run for Reggie Miller. Bringing him off triple-screens. You just haven't seen that. The next coming of that would be the kid in Oklahoma, [Kevin] Durant. They're the only two guys like that."
Rasheed Wallace picked a heckuva time to come back after a three-game hiatus with a sore left foot. He had the task of guarding Nowitzki.
"I don't know if this is the perfect game for him to come back and face Dirk Nowitzki," Rivers said. "That's a tall order but that's the order we have and he's got to follow through."
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The U.S. outlawed lead paint in 1978. Yet it still covers the walls of many older homes, particularly here in the northeast. When that paint chips or peels, it poses a serious danger especially to kids. But in 2005, Rhode Island passed a law requiring some landlords to clean up lead paint. And a group of researchers recently set out to find out if it's working. Hasbro Children's Hospital pediatrician and Brown University school of public health associate professor doctor Patrick Vivier is one of those researchers.
There were fewer children in Rhode Island last year with elevated lead levels in their blood. Improvements to housing played a big role in the decline.
Most of the drop in lead levels took place in Providence, Woonsocket, Warwick and Tiverton. In Providence, the city has made sure children couldn't live in rental homes unless they were certified as lead-free. Also, the city's water authority monitored lead levels in drinking water.


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When it comes to quenching a jones, Tim Calver simply reaches for his camera and dives into the drink. The hydroholic lensman can often be found immersed in one of the seven seas, capturing breathtaking aquatic scenes that have appeared in National Geographic and Time. Surface, an exhibit of his spirited underwater shots, opens tonight at 6:00 at the Miami Center for the Photographic Arts and features subjects ranging from humpback whales and spotted dolphins to shimmering clouds and watery horizons.
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Luxury detached 3 bedroomed villa with heating. Accommodation includes: ground floor - 1 twin bedroom and spacious shower room with basin and wc; lounge/diner including dvd player (an assortment of dvds for family viewing are complimentary), hairdryer, 88 channel freeview on 32" Sony flatscreen TV, cd stereo; newly fitted kitchen with dishwasher, full size cooker and microwave; first floor - 1 further twin and double bedroom with built-in wardrobes opening onto balcony; bathroom with basin and wc. The villa is situated in the grounds of a delightful 17th century Manor House with sweeping staircase. The Manor House is home to a family friendly café bar and new pizza and pasta restaurant – a perfect place to relax at any time of day. We have provided a Playstation 2 with games and a selection of board games and puzzles for those wet, summer days. Complimentary tennis and badminton racquets, golf balls and clubs for the onsite facilitiesare provided to save on hire charges.
Fantastic facilities ensure there's something to suit everyone – from swimming and children's clubs, to sports and entertainment. Or, for the ultimate in relaxation, spoil yourself with a sauna, solarium, steam or holistic massage treatment. There's even three fully stocked lakes for the angler to enjoy.
A proud holder of the David Bellamy Silver Award for Conservation, the park is superbly situated for exploring the numerous attractions of the area, such as the world famous Eden Project. Bodmin Moor is less than 1/2 a mile away as is the infamous Camel Trail.
See our recent review on Trip Advisor.
|Sleeps up to 6, 3 bedrooms
|Check in time:
|Check out time:
|Nearest beach
|Polzeath 10 km
|Will consider
|House swap, Long term lets (over 1 month)
|Car advised, Wheelchair users
|Nearest Amenities
|9 km
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Newquay 25 km, Nearest railway: Bodmin 13 km
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages, Suitable for people with restricted mobility
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
|Sauna, DVD player
|Shared indoor pool, Children's pool
|Central heating, TV, CD player, Pool or snooker table, Games room
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Clothes dryer, Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge
|3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms and 1 Shower rooms
|Double beds (1), Single beds (4), Dining seats for 6, Lounge seats for 6
|Linen provided, High chair
|Shared indoor pool, Balcony or terrace, Shared garden, Bicycles available, Climbing frame, Swing set, Private fishing lake or river
|Parking, Wheelchair users
|Further details indoors
Luxury detached three bedroom villa maintained to a very high standard in a beautiful Cornish setting. Double glazed and insulated villa with night storage heaters, which is perfect for all year round holidays. Ground floor: One twin bedroom, shower room with basin and wc. Open plan lounge and dining area with double french doors leading onto patio area with table and chairs. Newly fitted kitchen with dishwasher, full size cooker, bowl and a half sink. First floor: One double bedroom leading onto the balcony with lovely views over the countryside and one twin bedroom. Bathroom with fullsize bath, wc and basin. All bedding and electricity is included in the price you see. All appliances are to the highest standard including a 32" Sony LCD TV. In the villa we have included a Playstation 2 with games and karaoke, a selection of DVDs for family enjoyment, toys, games and books. We have also provided complimentary tennis racquets, badminton racquets and golf clubs to save on hire charges onsite. We are advised the fishing in the three lakes is excellent although you will need to obtain the appropriate licence from the Fishing Tackle shop onsite.
|Further details outdoors
It is difficult to imagine a facility that is not availabe onsite and with the new "Go Active" Programme there is an opportunity for you and the children to participate in exciting new sports. To see the programme of events visit http://www.hengarmanor.co.uk/downloads/GoActive-JulyTimes.pdf There is an opportunity to participate in archery (£12.50 per 1 1/2hr session, fencing £10.00 per 1 1/2 hr session, Waterwalkerz, Snorkelling, Crossbow, Football and much much more. The facilities on site include:
• Newly refurbished indoor leisure centre with 25m heated swimming pool, with slide, waterfall and poolside patio • Sauna • Solarium • Spa • Mini-gymn • Relaxation treatments • Steam room • Entertainments Lounge and bar • Hengar Tavern for traditional evening meals • Morellos Italian restaurant situated in the fantastic manor house with excellent reputation for pizza and pasta dishes • Café Torelli • Takeaway food • Bar meals • 9 hole par 3 pitch and putt golf course (golf clubs provided) • Pool table • Woodland adventure playground • Bike hire • Coarse fishing lakes • Bait and tackle shop • Hard tennis courts x 3 (tennis racquets provided) • Crazy golf • Mini Football Goals within grounds • Basketball • Sports equipment hire (including cycle hire by arrangement) • Shop • Video games rooms • Babysitting • Launderette
The villa is set in 35 beautiful acres of landscaped gardens, parks, mature woodland and still-water lakes. Located within easy reach of the pretty fishing village of Port Isaac and Padstow, close to the surfing paradise of Polzeath and across the estuary from Rock. The villa is central to many of Cornwall's excellent features and boasts being only half a mile from the renowned Camel Trail. The ducks make a daily visit on their way to and from the pond!
|Further details
Rentals are from Saturday to Saturday although this can be negotiated off peak. The villa may be suitable for those who have an elderly or disabled member in their party as one twin bedroom and shower room are on the ground floor. No specific disabled equipment has been installed. A Playstation 2 + games, DVD + selection of films, dishwasher, tennis racquets, golf clubs, toys and games have been placed in the villa for family enjoyment.
Cornwall doesn't come much better than this. Rock pools, rocky coves, rolling surf - Cornwall has it all. Then there's the coastal path, pretty fishing villages, rolling green fields, fabulous beaches, silent river creeks, towering cliffs and unspoiled countryside. The list goes on...but the sea is never far away.
You can explore it all from Hengar Manor: The Eden Project, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, National Maritime Museum, fishing villages of Padstow and Port Isaac, National Maritime Museum, Flambards Theme Park and beautiful beaches.
GOLF - There are many golf courses in the area, where you can relax and enjoy a quiet game. Try the course at St. Enodoc, with its restored church, overlooking the beautiful River Camel Estuary - with stunning vistas of the river, Padstow, Pentire Head and the surrounding countryside.
THE CAMEL TRAIL - The Camel Trail, available free 365 days of the year, winds through some of Cornwall's most beautiful and little-known countryside. Cornwall County Council converted 11 miles of disused railway beside the River Camel from track bed to trail, linking the towns of Bodmin, Wadebridge and Padstow. An extension follows the river towards Camelford. The Camel Trail is only 1 mile away, so bring your bikes for an enjoyable day out. (Bikes can also be hired at many places along the trail or from the campsite).
St Tudy is close to National Trust properties at Boscastle, Lanhydrock and Tintagel. The north coast from Rock to Tintagel offers stunning coastal walks. This area also benefits from many excellent restaurants, in the nearby towns of Wadebridge, Polzeath, Rock and Padstow.
Nestling on the beautiful Camel Estuary Padstow offers beautiful coastal views. The town with its colourful harbour surrounded by pastel-washed medieval houses is an attraction in itself. For the more active and adventurous Padstow offers a range of activities including walking and cycling, the world famous Camel Trail, South West Coastal Footpath, water sports including fishing, surfing and sailing and unrivalled Golf on the seaside links of St Enodoc, Trevose and the nearby Merlin Golf Club.
It's not all action of course - watching the everyday ebb and flow of harbour life is a perfect way to spend a day in Padstow. If you find this too hectic spend the afternoon relaxing at peaceful Harbour Cove with its lovely sandy beach and fabulous views of the Camel Estuary, or take a ferry trip across to Rock and visit the hushed church of St Enodoc where Sir John Betjeman is buried. Padstow is surrounded by glorious clean sandy beaches – no less than 7 bays are within a five minute drive as are the villages of St Merryn, St Issey, Little Petherick and St Ervan.


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La petite maison de chèvrefeuille. Pretty cottage full of character on a private little lane.
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Free wifi n Welcome pack of essentials on arrival including fresh french bread and bottle of local wine or Champagne.
Honeysuckle Cottage is set on a private gated drive next to Rose Cottage. (Not on a road) Roses, Jasmine,Honeysuckle and Wisteria clambering up the walls, pots of flowers and hanging baskets and very tastefully decorated inside.
It has everything you need for a wonderful stay here in southern France and is just 25 mins from Carcassonne Airport. You can pick up your shopping on the way through and enjoy a BBQ (webber gas) or eat out at our local Cafe/bar.
Spacious, with pretty little shuttered windows, view of the pyrenees, tiled and wooden floors and beamed ceilings.
WIFI /TV/DVD with good films to watch. Bookcase full of interesting books including some novels about the surrounding area to while away the hours maybe whilst sunbathing in the pretty south facing garden.
The kitchen area is fitted with all you need for a relaxing holiday including a full gas cooker with hob and oven/ microwave/fridge and loads of storage space and a typical double pot sink with constant hot water.
The lounge/dining area area has a parker knoll suite (no sofa bed here) a comfy french fireside chair and coffee tables etc and an old but beautiful french dresser with all your crockery in and a tiled top table and padded ladder backed chairs.
The bedroom and bathroom are up a wooden open tread staircase. A very spacious special bedroom with a chandelier in the beamed ceiling over the beautiful KINGSIZE 160x200 bed with crisp linen and a new mattress. Lots of storage space including wardrobes painted in the provencal style a french dressing table with ornate mirror, bedside chests with matching lamps and stunning views from the shuttered window.
The bathroom by the bedroom is spacious and modern with a large walk in shower, tiled floor with comfy chair, a selection of toiletries and a set of luxury fluffy towels and constant hot water.
We have bikes with locks for you to use at no extra charge. You can get to Limoux and then use the train service to Quillan and/or Carcassonne or just potter around the vines on them.
If you are thinking of buying a property in the area we can help with that too. We can advice on great villages and even get some properties together for you to look at.
|Sleeps up to 2, 1 bedrooms
|Nearest beach
|Carcassonne - Plage half hour away +Narbonne Plage
|Will consider
|House swap, Long term lets (over 1 month)
|Car advised
|Nearest Amenities
|3 km
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Carcassonne 25 mins drive, Nearest railway: Limoux 15 mins drive
|Family friendly
|Suitable for children over 5
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Jacuzzi or hot tub, DVD player, Staffed property
|Private outdoor pool (unheated)
|TV, Telephone, Pool or snooker table, Table tennis, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Clothes dryer, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|1 bedroom, 1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms
|1 Sofa beds, King Beds (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 5
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Private outdoor pool (unheated), Balcony or terrace, Private garden, Shared garden, BBQ, Bicycles available
|Secure parking
|Further details indoors
Pretty, picturesque south facing cottage on private gated lane with parking, next to our own home.
Tranquil and peaceful surroundings with sunny courtyard and pretty gardens with Lafuma loungers. No through traffic.
Situated on the southern edge of a beautiful wine/sunflower growing village and facing fields of vineyards and hills.
Ideal for walking, bike riding,bird watching,(nightingales/eagles etc etc) exploring the wine tasting or just relaxing, maybe playing boules with the locals or enjoying the tranquil surroundings. If your a landscape painter then you will love it here.
The village has a bakery/bread/cakes with large grocery area, cafe/bar, post office, Art gallery/Crafts, a small school of around 15 children situated in The Mairie, football pitch and playground.
Belveze 5 mins down the road has food shops, great pizzeria, newsagent, bank, post office, hairdressers an outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts, footie pitch and a beautiful lake to walk round.
The area is seeped in history, so lots to do and see. Small cafe/bar in the village open all year round with a great menu so you can eat out and walk home afterwards or just a short car ride is the hustle and bustle of Limoux with it's pretty square with lots of great restaurants and cafe's to enjoy a good meal or stroll around the many wonderful shops.
Carcassonne is also close by with it's Medieval castle and busy town.
We, the owners live in a completely separate property next door and have a wealth of local knowledge should you need our help and advice on what to see and do but will respect your privacy when you just want to relax and do nothing. We just want you to have the holiday that you intended and we hope that you have a wonderful time in this beautiful part of the world.
|Further details outdoors
A small south facing private cottage garden, very pretty with lots of flowers and climbers, and one of the two cherry trees is in the centre for some dappled shade. Table and chairs and a bench for relaxing. There is also a chicken coop and run with our 3 lovely chicks who provide us with eggs every day.
In April/May you can hear the nightingales singing as mating season starts. A little table and chairs, deck chairs, sun loungers are there for you to use and a small pool in the main garden is open from June to September. (shared with owners) This year we have a small jacuzzi in the garden too. If this works we will be getting a bigger and better one.
There are four lovely areas to sit and relax in with lots of flowers and shrubs and trees and of course our veggie garden for you to stroll by. (possible samples for you to try depending on time of year) and of course cherries in June for you to pick.
The covered eating out area by your front door in the courtyard is great for al fresco eating and a great sun trap early evening and when the sun goes down on a clear night it's lovely to sit with your glass of wine and look at the spectacular starry sky. There is a gas BBQ in this area which you are welcome to use anytime.
In the large barn there is a multi gym, exercise bike, darts and also a selection of bikes for you to use at your leisure. We also have tennis rackets should you wish a game at the local courts in Belveze (5 mins down the road). There is also an open air swimming pool by the tennis courts and a beautiful lake to walk around.
|Further details
All towels and bed linen are provided including beach towels for the pool/jacuzzi. A free welcome pack of essentials is also provided. We try our best to make your holiday one to remember.
Washing machine is in our home and I will do you a wash when/if needed ( 5 euro's per load ). There is also a dryer situated in the barn ( 5 euro's ) powder and softener included. Apart from using washing machine everything else is included in the weekly rate.
You are also welcome to use our landline phone to ring overseas landline numbers. (no charge we have a free rate)
We can also book you a table at the cafe/bar in the village for a first evening meal to save you bothering after your journey here.
We also offer a pick up service to and from the airport and other places for couples who don't want to hire a car for their stay or want a night out without driving. Prices in next box.
The Languedoc-Roussillon region
Aude is located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Pyrenees mountains in South France, it has an excellent climate with 300 days of sunshine a year and a range of attractions - Carcassonne La cité medieval fortress castle, with winding stairways, beautiful stone arches and numerous passageways inviting you to explore their mystery. The coastline has many beautiful, quiet coves, or busier more touristy areas around Narbonne. There are museums, caves, lakes and rivers, mountains for skiing and walking and many other attractions. Festival de Carcassonne 2012 June - Aug. The Magic of Christmas festival last three weeks in Dec.
Carcassonne - Plage A beautiful man made beach with lake................................. 30 Mins
Limoux: Our nearest town with its lively square and great shops............................. 15 mins
Toulouse: A wonderful historic city well worth a trip................................................ ( 1 hours drive)
Cathar castles: The area is steeped in the history of the Cathars with remarkable fortress castles in the mountains.
Gorge de Galamus: Only 30km away is this breathtaking gorge. Great for driving and hiking.
The Pyrenees: hiking in the summer skiing in the winter............................................ 1 Hour
Narbonne seaside..............................................................................................................1.5 Hours
Argeles beautiful coastal area..........................................................................................just over 2 Hours
Amelie les Bain ..................................................................................................................." " " " "
Great place for bird watching either in our garden or in the local area. Birds of prey/nightingales are but a few.
Wine: we are situated in the heart of the Malepere vineyards, visits and tasting.
The wine harvest starts in late summer with the huge grape machines trundling around a great site to see.
The harvest is a major event and starts end of August/early Sept. The official launch is called "Bon des Vendanges". It takes several weeks to bring in all the grapes. It is a time when the locals celebrate the wealth of the land together and discuss the vintage.
the first new wines can be tasted in the third week of October and once again many festivities take place during this time.
Fantastic area for walking/climbing and bike riding. Please check website for local walks.
Festival de Carcassonne is on every summer. Over 70 live music and theatre events www.festivaldecarcassonne.fr for info on 2013.
Tel: 0 468 115 915 to book .
TOUR DE FRANCE: Stages pass through our area on Saturday 6th July 2013 ... -
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Limoux: the local market town famous for the world's first sparkling wine, Blanquette and its Winter Clown festival, Fecos, which runs from Feb to April. Sports: tennis, swimming, cycling, horse riding, fishing and walking are all available locally.
Rafting, canoeing and hydrospeeding can be booked on the local fast flowing rivers. Canal du Midi: Cycling, walking or cruising on this famous waterway.
Fantastic area for walking and bike riding. Please check website for local walks.
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6 Jan 2014
"Home from home in a delightfull French cottage in the heart of French countryside"
Very warm welcome from Paul and Sue who were always on hand if needed but never intrusive Welcome pack was perfect and the Blanchet a real treat with our Christmas dinner .The cottage had everything we needed and was lovely and cosy even though it was December and no extra charge for the heating The walks from the cottage were delightfull and we were lucky enough to experience sunshine most of the week with an added bonus of going up into the Pyrenees for the sow 3 foot deep Don't forget to have a meal in the local bar run by Lynn and Les lovely meals and company and not forgetting fresh bread daily from the bakery even on Christmas Day We will return hopefully next summer
Hi Both, Thank you so much for your great review. It means so much to us to know you have enjoyed your stay here. We really do try to get things right and for good responses like yours it really is worth all the effort. Hope we do see you again sometime. With warm wishes Sue n Paul
27 Aug 2013
"Wonderful holiday, superb surroundings, excellent hosts and a beautiful cottage."
Thank you to Sue and Paul for a fantastic holiday. The cottage has everything you need with the most comfortable bed; we had the best sleep ever. The outside space has places to sit and eat in the sha… More
Thank you both for your super review. It was a pleasure meeting you and spending a few times chatting too. Your review has lifted our spirits as most do and we are so pleased that you enjoyed yourselves. Take great care and happy holidays for the future. SnP
18 Aug 2013
"Perfect for relaxing and exploring"
We had a fantastic couple of weeks at Honeysuckle Cottage. The cottage is spacious for 2 people and the garden is is great for chilling and cooling off in the pool. There are lots of walks on the door… More
Thank you for your wonderful comments. We are so pleased you had a great time. It was lovely meeting you both. Take care of yourselves. Maybe see you in the future. Best Sue n Paul
21 Jul 2013
""Such a lovely holiday""
We had a lovely weeks holiday here in this cottage in July, It was very hot and the weather was great all week. Sue and Paul the owners were extremely helpful as we are young and weren't able to hire … More
Thank you Scarlet and Martyn. It was lovely to meet you both and we are so pleased you enjoyed your stay here. The previous review was a big let down for us as we do try our best for everyone that comes. Back on track now. Have a wonderful rest of the summer. Best wishes Sue n Paul
30 Jun 2013
"Not what we expected from the description"
The owners' description implies that the outdoor space is 'private', this is not the case. You need to be comfortable with being in close proximity to the owners who live in the adjoining cottage to … More
We are sorry you didn't find your holiday as you expected. That particular week we had family over from UK, three adults who were very quiet and careful not to get in the way. We have 4 garden areas and most were not being used because the weather wasn't that good. We have customers who have been back year after year and love Honeysuckle Cottage and all we have here. That to us says we are getting it right. On holiday lettings we don't say we have a balcony as we haven't got one. I don't know why Trip Advisor says we have. i will look into that. You have obviously not been in a small cottage as ours is big by comparison. When the sun shines it is bright but I think the lack of sun on your holiday really messed your time here up. We cannot guarantee the weather unfortunately but normally the weather in June is very good.
3 Apr 2013
"Excellent break in the most perfect cottage!"
I stayed in this beautiful cottage in March 13. I organised the break as a surprise for my partner. The cottage is perfect in every way. The English owners Sue and Paul made us feel extremely welco… More
Thank you so much for your lovely review. Much appreciated. We are looking forward to seeing you again very soon. Another satisfied couple. We are delighted. Sue n Paul
13 Feb 2013
"A dream holiday hideaway"
Sue and Paul have thought of everything and take great care to prepare this wonderful cottage for their guests. The welcome is second to none - warm, friendly and helpful. The cottage is very French… More
A wonderful couple who have now been to Honeysuckle four times. To us this says it all. They wont be coming again though as they have just bought a property in the area and will be here permanently in July. See you soon Andy and Sue.
6 Nov 2012
"Charming Accommodation"
Lovely location and charming cottage. Owners very friendly and helpful. I suspect the surrounding countryside is beautiful in the Summer months.
Thank you for taking the time to review Honeysuckle Cottage and for your kind words. We do hope you will come again, possibly in the summertime next time. With Best Wishes Sue n Paul
7 Oct 2012
"Just wonderful, a little gem"
Flying into Carcasonne was so easy. Such a small airport means getting in and out is very quick. We'd hired a car over the internet in advance and picking it up was hassle free. The drive to our ac… More
Thank you for your wonderful informative review on Honeysuckle Cottage. We do hope you will come again sometime. Best Wishes Sue n Paul
15 Jul 2012
"Lovely cottage in a fascinating area"
Sue and Paul were great next door hosts for whom nothing was too much trouble. The cottage had everything and the welcome wine and other essentials added to the feeling that we were glad to be there a… More
Thank you for your wonderful review. We are so pleased to get feedback and to know you enjoyed your holiday here in France. Best Wishes Sue n Paul
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For a while now I've saved poser pz2 mats using CPM in Daz 3. I've made tons of freebie textures including both Daz and Poser and placed them in the same pose folder. I started making the poser pz2 mat so that my Daz file would show up under the runtime structure.
Fast forward to now. I've been working on a character for selling purposes. Like always I tend to test things as much as possible in anywhich way I am capable of before I send it out to Poser users for testing. So out of curiousity I moved my Daz mat pose file out of the folder with the poser pz2 mat. Then opened Daz and applied the texture to V4 with just the pz2. I noticed it didn't look quite right but all the texture images I created were there. So I scrolled through the surface tab and noticed that some of the numerical settings for Ambient and so on were not saving properly in the pz2s but when the Daz mat and pz2 file are in the folder together the settings I wanted were loaded correctly. So I rummaged through the Daz forum archives and from what I gather is a Poser user would have to adjust ambient and a few other things.
In my opinion if I'm going to offer a character texture set I would want both Daz and Poser users to have the textures applied how I intended them to be without much tweeking. So the way I see it I have a few options.
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Having played golf courses all over the world, many people have asked me what my favorite place to play is. In a simple answer, Pebble Beach is always first on my list. The problem with Pebble Beach is that it cost about $500.00 to play the course. I would highly recommend that every golfer do it one time. If you don't have the financial resources, there are other options that are much more affordable in that area.
I have lived in the Carmel area for ten years, and I have to say that I had never been to the Carmel Mission. After hearing that Pope Francis will be canonizing Father Junipero Serra, I thought to myself maybe now is a good time to go. The Carmel Mission Basilica is just a three minute door-to-door drive from the Carmel Mission Inn.
The Cavaliers of the West held their annual winter dog show this year at Carmel Mission Inn! There were prizes to be won, an enthralling silent auction, and many, many cute dogs. All of the proceeds from this event benefit CavalierRescueUSA, which is dedicated to finding forever homes for needy Cavaliers.
For over a hundred and sixty years, "the shack" has stood the test of time against the elements. This shack, now known as the Whalers Cabin, overlooks Whalers Cove and Carmel Bay in the Point Lobos State Reserve. The Whalers Cabin survived the rise and fall of the whaling industry and has been preserved as a cultural museum.
Imagine swimming into a forest of giant kelp, feeling the warm sunshine on your back and the cold waters all around you. Point Lobos State Marine Reserve provides a chance for divers to explore wonders of the Pacific Ocean. Located to the south of Carmel by-the-Sea, Point Lobos is located on the north end of the Big Sur coastline. It is a less than ten minute drive from the Carmel Mission Inn. Point Lobos is widely considered California's best dive spot due to the rich marine life, clear water and interesting topography.
Point Lobos State Reserve is a hidden gem along the California Coast. Point Lobos can sometimes be overshadowed by the popularity of Big Sur, which is just a few miles further south along Highway 1. Boasting a rich wildlife and beautiful landscape, Point Lobos is an excellent destination for hiking.
Carmel Mission Inn's Convenient location allows you to fully enjoy all that the Monterey Peninsula has to offer. Wine tasting, world class golf courses, designer shops, and world famous Point Lobos State Reserve are located only a short drive away from the hotel. Watch our video to learn about various recreational activities available while staying in Carmel Ca at Carmel Mission Inn.
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Christmas is coming and the streets of Carmel are decked out in holiday cheer. Carmel brings Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" to life with its cottage like buildings, winter trees with twinkling lights, miles of garland and big red bows tied around bountiful wreaths. I for one cannot help but feel warm inside during this time of year and Carmel, CA brings the complete Christmas package, minus the snow, to our small slice of heaven on California's Central Coast.
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Consolidated GAAP general and administrative expenses were $185.8 million in the first quarter 2013, an increase of $21.4 million from the first quarter 2012 as a result of the acquisition, integration and restructuring charges associated with the acquisitions of Actavis and Uteron and higher expenses associated with the addition of the legacy Actavis business. General and administrative expenses in the prior year were impacted by a $59.8 million litigation charge primarily related to the Company's drug pricing litigation.
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U.S. Court rules National Guard base closure illegal
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A federal judge ruled on Friday
that the Pentagon had broken the law in seeking to close down
the 111th Fighter Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard
without first obtaining the governor's approval.
The ruling was a victory for Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell,
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The 111th Fighter Wing is based at Willow Grove Naval Air
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Hotel Suites Albayzin del Mar - Almunecar, Granada
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Searching the net for aparthotels in Almunecar? Make sure you take a look at Hotel Suites Albayzin del Mar!
Enjoy a spot of lunch or an evening meal at this 4 star Almunecar aparthotel's restaurant where you're sure to find something to suit your taste. Why not go for a swim as this aparthotel features an outdoor pool, a good way to unwind. There is also a swim-up bar and a bar/lounge so guests can sip a refreshing drink by the pool or indoors when staying here. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk can provide express check-in and express check-out. Free Wi-Fi is available.
The reception has a safety deposit box for your valuable items. Planning a meeting? This aparthotel has 4 meeting rooms. Other amenities include an elevator (lift) and a garden.
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- Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
Check-in: after 5 PM .
Check-out: before noon.
PolicyExtra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Self parking fee: EUR 14.52 per day
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 11 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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Book your pet-friendly accommodation at Hotel Suites Albayzin del Mar, offering 71 guest rooms with climate control and free Wi-Fi. Rooms open onto balconies. Guest rooms are individually decorated, making each stay a unique experience. In-room kitchens equipped with refrigerators allow you to save on dining expenses while you travel.
Satellite TV channels offer entertainment at the end of a busy day. Business travelers will have access to phones during their Almunecar visit. Rooms also include air conditioning.
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From N-340 road, take the exit n.6.
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From Granada train station: 75 km.
From Malaga station: 65 km.
Distances from Suites Albayzin del MarAquarium Almunecar - 0.4 km / 0.2 mi
Almunecar Roman Aqueduct - 0.5 km / 0.3 mi
Bonsai Garden Museum - 0.6 km / 0.4 mi
Cueva de Siete Palacios Archeological Museum - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi
Ornitologico Loro Park - 0.9 km / 0.5 mi
Almunecar Beach - 1 km / 0.6 mi
Aqua Tropic Waterpark - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi
La Herradura Castle - 4.6 km / 2.9 mi
Canuelo Beach - 8.5 km / 5.3 mi
Salobrena Beach - 9.3 km / 5.8 mi
Salobrena Castle - 9.5 km / 5.9 mi
Pena Escrita - 10.9 km / 6.8 mi
Granada Beach - 12.4 km / 7.7 mi
Los Moriscos Golf Club - 12.4 km / 7.7 mi
Ron Montero Winery - 13 km / 8.1 mi
The preferred airport for Hotel Suites Albayzin del Mar is Granada (GRX-Federico Garcia Lorca) - 50.3 km / 31.2 mi.
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
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By Adriana Janovich, Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash. Jul. 13--While some firefighters headed to higher priority blazes near Spokane and Tonasket, most of the crew that was battling the Car-penter Gulch blaze near Tampico remained on site Saturday, mopping up hot spots.
By Sarah Jenkins The news for airline travelers has been almost relentlessly bad: The airlines have announced 20 fare increases in 2008 alone, trying, they say, to keep up with the astronomically expensive price of jet fuel.
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By Mark Morey and Ross Courtney, Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash. Jul. 10--Drug agents in Yakima County topped their own record for this year when they pulled 30,000 marijuana plants from a vineyard south of Sunnyside.
By Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash. Jul. 10--Borton Enterprises of Yakima is being required to contribute to street improvements on Nob Hill Boulevard in a city environmental review of the company's plans to build a 342-unit apartment complex near 51st Avenue and Nob Hill.
By Mark Morey, Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash. Jul. 10--Wildland firefighters are expected to continue arriving today to reinforce crews fighting a 70-acre forest fire in rugged country west of Tampico.
By Scott Sandsberry, Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash. Jul. 10--YAKIMA -- The proposed cattle grazing on state wildlife areas in eastern Kittitas County will be getting a more complete public airing beginning Tuesday. A public scoping meeting, set for 6 to 9 p.m.
By Phil Ferolito, Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash. Jul. 8--TOPPENISH -- Responding to public outcry, Yakama tribal leaders have barred new dairies, feedlots or the expansion of either within the reservation.
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