Born in Honfleur, Boudin didn't stray far from the English Channel seacoast until late-life travels to Venice and Istanbul.

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Saturday morning's high tide sent waves crashing into closed roads along the seacoast, local police said, but there were no reports of significant damage.

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Most of the 85 rooms are in clean-lined, gray clapboard cottages--they appear to have been beamed in from the New England seacoast--designed by go-to winery architect Howard Backen.

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This week, the McCain campaign put up an ad in the seacoast region of South Carolina that features a recent USA Today poll showing McCain beating Al Gore in a theoretical match-up this fall.

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In the seacoast town of Scituate, Mass.

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But Jordan manages to unite everything the florid imagery, the dark emotional undertones, the flaky comedy, the astonishing physical beauty of the Irish seacoast into a single, unbroken mood, a smooth arc connecting the past and the present, the familiar and the unforeseen.

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West and south of Siena, and two hours north of Rome, it sweeps from a Tyrrhenian seacoast of limestone cliffs, deserted dunes, and umbrella pines that look like fantasy broccoli forests, across broad plains of olive trees and scented Mediterranean brush, and up to shadowy woodlands and ancient, fortified hill towns.

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