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A short walk away in Jaffa’s American Colony neighborhood, where 100-year-old clapboard houses offer a reminder of the Christian pilgrims from New England who settled there in the 1880s, another restored building has been revived as a grand hotel. The Drisco, a 42-room property breathes life back into a majestic Ottoman building from 1866. Formerly known as the Jerusalem Hotel, the Drisco’s structure was built by two evangelical Christian brothers who wanted a luxury stopover for pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. The building, which was converted into British military headquarters during World War II before sitting abandoned for 50 years, now sports elegant tiling, sophisticated décor and hand-painted recreations of the building’s original murals.

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Interrupting this string of scrupulously tricky fictions, in 2015 Murnane published Something for the Pain, a memoir of his lifelong engagement with horse-racing. It is the only one of his books that can reasonably be called breezy. He reminisces about jockeys, grouses about rules he doesn’t agree with and tells stories about his father. We learn that he now keeps a mobile phone in the boot of his car but doesn’t know how to save numbers to it, that when he drives he listens to horse races broadcast from all over Australia and that he himself has never sat astride a horse. The knot that has bound religion, sex and fiction-writing in his books is loosed and one thing is left. ‘I have never met anyone whose interest in racing matched my own.’

The next person to check on Madeleine and her siblings was Matthew Oldfield, who noticed the children’s bedroom door was again open. He peeked into the room and saw the twins asleep, but would be unable to say for certain if Madeleine was in the room at the time.

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With the recent addition of the Cobra’s Curse family coaster, Tigris adds a new high-thrill coaster to Busch Gardens ride lineup, Schaffer said.

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“There has been a consistent pattern throughout #Russiagate,” Taibbi noted. “Step one: salacious headline. Step two: days or weeks later: news emerges the story is shakier than first believed. Step three (in the best case) involves the story being walked back or retracted by the same publication.”

“The compact size of the ride, just in its nature, lended itself to this site,” Schaffer said. “It worked out well for us as well as leaving us some additional open land if we ever want to use it for anything else. It just fit nice and tight into this site.”

Leff has shared her award-winning landscape design talents on HGTV shows “Curb Appeal” and “Landscape Smart.”