Fairytale ski town of Breckenridge

Source: Adelaide Now

Breckenridge has Colorado's oldest pub and the town is dotted with Victorian-style houses. Picture: Thinkstock Source: National Features The town of Breckenridge in Colorado. Picture: Jeff Andrew Source: National Features WALKING ...
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Maiden Alex-Ibru: My Husband Told Abacha His Word Should Be His Bond

Source: THISDAY LIVE

TUNDE RAHMAN presents the highpoints of the inaugural legacy lecture in honour of the late publisher of The Guardian, Alex Ibru, held last Tuesday at the University of Port Harcourt…. The agony of losing a husband of 38 years with whom she bonded v ...
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Sacramento's underground tours reveal hidden past

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Courtesy / Sacramento CVB The 1927 Delta King paddle wheeler is now a floating hotel. As settings for state capitals go, Sacramento probably is not the most glamorous or grand (although it certainly beats out Trenton or Tallahassee), but what i ...
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A Fair wind blows down at the Point

Source: Irish Times

THE SOCIAL NETWORK: It was something of a busman’s holiday for Kim Burrowes at the premiere of Snow White and the Huntsman at the Odeon Cinema in the Point Village on Wednesday evening. Burrowes, who works as a floor manager on Fair ...
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Book review: Ignorance by Michele Roberts

Source: The Scotsman

MICHELE Roberts’s feminist credentials go back a long way and cover many different subjects, from superb historical fiction on the Brontës and Wordsworth’s French mistress, to more contemporary, experimental novels about life in 1970s London. ...
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Interview: Paul French, author of Midnight in China

Source: The Scotsman

Pamela Werner was 19 when her heart and her body were left under a ‘haunted watchtower’ in Peking in 1937. Paul French tells David Robinson how he can finally name the killer I haven’t met anyone like Paul French before. He is a 6ft 5in, stra ...
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A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics, By Neil Faulkner

Source: The Independent

Imagine 100,000 people thronging Glastonbury at its most squalid. Cross that with the unwashed aggression of an old-style stadium. Then factor in a vast open-air brothel (straight or gay) and a site-wide whiffy barbecue. Crowd control ...
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Ignorance by Michèle Roberts - review

Source: Guardian Unlimited

There are at least two types of ignorance. The first reflects lack of teaching and experience, the second a more subtle, deliberate failure to know what ought to be known. Two young girls, Marie-Angèle Bau ...
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Four men and two women charged in police raid that closed alleged brothel in Charlestown

Source: Boston.com

John R. Ellement can be reached at ellement@globe.com. Four men and two women were arraigned in Charlestown District Court today in the wake of a Boston police raid that shut down an alleged brothel and drug den operating in a federally subsidized ...
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