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Family Freebies. Club Med's Kids 15 and Under Stay Free offer is pretty much as it sounds: one child under 15 per paying adult gets a free ride at the all-inclusive Club Med resorts in Sandpiper, Fla.; Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; and Cancún and Ixtapa, Mexico. Access to kids clubs, with their circus schools, magic programs and science activities (for ages 4 and up), is included. Meanwhile, adults can keep busy playing tennis, snorkeling and sailing. Depending on the property, rates start at $145 to $180 per night. Book by June 30 for stays through...
Many hotels in Mexico are accommodating last-minute cancellations without penalty. Iberostar Hotels & Resorts is allowing guests to trade upcoming stays in Mexico for stays at other properties in Jamaica or the Dominican Republic with no change fee, and is not charging guests who elect to leave Mexico early. The InterContinental Hotels Group, which operates the InterContinental in Cancun and the Crowne Plaza in Acapulco, among other properties, is offering to waive cancellation fees for reservations at any of its Mexican properties through...
...daughter Margarita wed Luis Alfonso de Borbón, a cousin of Spain's King Juan Carlos, great-grandson of the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and a legitimate heir to the non-existent throne of France. They were married at Vargas' palatial mansion in the Dominican Republic, a wedding that was catered by New York's exclusive Le Cirque restaurant and included 1,000 guests...
...Kathleen Martinez, an archaeologist from the Dominican Republic who has conducted the digs at Abusir for the past three years, told reporters that she wants "to be Cleopatra's lawyer," and prove there is much more to the ancient potentate than the work of two thousands years of Western male imagination. Debates still rage over everything from Cleopatra's identity - cranial scans of her half-sister's skull this year suggested she may be African, though her known lineage was Greek - to her looks. Close scrutiny of coin portraits have led some to believe that she was rather plain...
...into leaving the country. First 240 U.N.-Organization of American States human-rights monitors scattered around the countryside were pulled back into Port-au-Prince. From there the U.N., apparently fearing they might be targeted for violence or taken hostage, ordered them flown out in two batches to the Dominican Republic. Their departure is having ''a terrible demoralizing effect on the people, who feel abandoned,'' said one. A Haitian intellectual charged that ''the U.S. led us out on a limb and left us there to be eaten up slowly by these tigers.'' His comment indicates the stakes...