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In a speech posted on the internet and delivered in the northern Indian hilltown of Dharamasala, the veteran Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader said that he would ask the Tibetan parliament in exile to make the necessary constitutional changes to relieve him of his "formal authority" as head of the Tibetan community outside China.
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It is a retreat for philosophers, aristocrats and anti-Berlusconi politicians who convene every summer to eat wild boar and attend cultural conferences in nearby Capalbio, a medieval hilltown nicknamed "Little Athens".
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The walls of the dwellings in the hilltown are more solid and massive.
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She came from ordinary southern-Italian country stock, was raised in a tiny hilltown thirty miles east of Naples, and like millions of other women and men made the transatlantic trip around the turn of the century, hoping for an easier life.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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What troubles us though is this; despite the first-glance similarities, why are tract housing developments in America so incredibly dull and soul-less, while even the most insignificant Italian hilltown is filled with curiosity, culture and life?
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The hilltown seems to be calibrated for pedestrians and bicycles.
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She came from ordinary southern-Italian country stock, was raised in a tiny hilltown thirty miles east of Naples, and like millions of other women and men made the transatlantic trip around the turn of the century, hoping for an easier life.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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She came from ordinary southern-Italian country stock, was raised in a tiny hilltown thirty miles east of Naples, and like millions of other women and men made the transatlantic trip around the turn of the century, hoping for an easier life.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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Only a few miles from this Umbrian hilltown, the last smoldering lignite mine closed a couple of decades ago after a series of fatal accidents, and with it went the haze of sulfuric acid, mercury, lead and fly ash that cloaked much of Europe.
Jeff Biggers: Letter From Europe: Foreign Disbelief of Topless America 2009
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By mike, August 16, 2009 @ 11:32 am a lot of the hilltown blocks have fabulous gardens. many of the major streets are lined with trees, there is a surprising amount of greenery for the density. compared to the manicured lawns and occasional bushes of the issaquah development, they are incredibly more lush, diverse and liveable.
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