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Near the end, the narrator of this riveting novel refers to all that has gone before as "this story of a boy's adventures." Some boy. Some adventures. Both are as far as they could be from innocent visions of Tom Sawyer or Horatio Alger. Even discounting a particularly bloody...
Perhaps the most popular fantasy of all involves a visit with the resort's most distinguished guests: eight Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins, in residence under the care of marine-mammal veterinarians Rae Stone and Jay Sweeney. Rather than ricocheting around a concrete pool, the dolphins frolic in a protected saltwater...
At $55 for half an hour, the dolphin encounter strikes many guests as a bargain -- enough, at least, to ensure that there is usually a waiting list for a spot on the dock. Reservations at the restaurants are also hard to come by when the hotel is full, but the...
The encounter was as historic as the setting. In the glittering white ballroom of the 17th century Palace of the Council of Ministers, 57 people took seats at a massive table built especially for the occasion. Ranged around one side were negotiators for Poland's Communist government, led by the...
Yet unlike the meetings between Nakasone and Ronald Reagan, who called each other Ron and Yasu, the Bush-Takeshita encounter produced few signs of rapport that could help defuse a new outbreak of tensions. The two appeared stiff and uncomfortable as they stood side by side in the White House...