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...tuck into drams of whiskey (the famous Jura distillery is nearby) and roast venison or locally caught lobster. (The island is also where George Orwell wrote the novel 1984.) You can go deer stalking here - the deer outnumber the residents - and fish or go on pony treks along the moor. Rates start at $55 per night, including breakfast. Isle of Jura, Argyll, Scotland...
...looked away from the house, it was a peaceful night. The dark sky was dotted with stars in the way that only the sky over a British moor could be. A cool mist crept over the purple hills toward her, and she longed for it to hurry, it looked so fresh and cleansing...
...small sculpture gallery off the main hall. No, she was alone here, alone again with The Stable Boy.The cool stale air, the marble floors, the stone balustrades, the gilt frames, Filippo—all but The Stable Boy dissolved into a ripe sun, a voluptuous ribbon of billowing moor, a stable floor strewn with hay that could not mask the brutal hardness of wood. She felt the splinters scraping her tender back as though it had been yesterday.And he was here in Italy. She knew it with as much certainty as if the painted figure before her were not oils...
...recording and touring and was a deejay on New York City's KISS-FM - but he got plenty of film work when he wanted it. In 1993, for instance, he appeared as one of the rebel ex-slaves in Mario Van Peebles' black western Posse and as a displaced Moor in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights...
...young professionals. That case seemed to play out as a distinctly middle-class drama: the McCanns were dining at a sun-splashed Portuguese resort when their daughter went missing. The Shannon Matthews case, on the other hand, has provided a stark reminder to the residents of the Dewsbury Moor council estate - and to Britain as a whole - that the lives of the poor are too often of interest only when they become too desperate to ignore, or too bizarre. with reporting by D.J. Siegel