CONNECTIONS October 2016 issue 17 The Presidency

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The New Presidency P 1 

How President Trump 

And Vice President Pence turn it around. 

Best celebrity Halloween 

Costumes P 6 

Fall Back Fashion Statement 

Cold Hot Wendy as well P 7 

Health and Fitness P 9 

Mediterranean Plus pros and cons of 

vegetables 

Social trends P 11 

Social Media 

Amazing Place P 12 

Best of Baja California 

When Hillary met Bill. P 17 

Campus relation go viral. 

America’s new president 

The Trump era 

His victory threatens old certainties about 

America and its role in the world. What will 

take their place? 

Nov 12th 2016 

THE fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 

9th 1989, was when history was said to 

have ended. The fight between communism 

and capitalism was over. After a titanic 

ideological struggle encompassing the 

decades after the second world war, open 

markets and Western liberal democracy 

reigned supreme. In the early morning of 

November 9th 2016, when Donald Trump 

crossed the threshold of 270 electoralcollege 

votes to become America’s 

president-elect, that illusion was shattered. 

History is back—with a vengeance. 

The fact of Mr Trump’s victory and the way 

it came about are hammer blows both to 

the norms that underpin politics in the 

United States and also to America’s role as 

the world’s pre-eminent power. At home, an 

apparently amateurish and chaotic 

campaign has humiliated an industry of 

consultants, pundits and pollsters. If, as he 

has threatened, President Trump goes on 

to test the institutions that regulate political 

life, nobody can be sure how they will bear 

up. Abroad, he has taken aim at the belief, 

embraced by every post-war president, that 

America gains from the often thankless task 

of being the global hegemon. If Mr Trump 

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now disengages from the world, who knows 

what will storm through the breach? 

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The sense that old certainties are crumbling 

has rocked America’s allies. The fear that 

globalisation has fallen flat has whipsawed 

markets. Although post-Brexit Britons know 

what that feels like, the referendum in 

Britain will be eclipsed by consequences of 

this election. Mr Trump’s victory has 

demolished a consensus. The question now 

is what takes its place. 

Trump towers 

Start with the observation that America has 

voted not for a change of party so much as 

a change of regime. Mr Trump was carried 

to office on a tide of popular rage 

(see article). This is powered partly by the 

fact that ordinary Americans have not 

shared in their country’s prosperity. In real 

terms median male earnings are still lower 

than they were in the 1970s. In the past 50 

years, barring the expansion of the 1990s, 

middle-ranking households have taken 

longer to claw back lost income with each 

recession. Social mobility is too low to hold 

out the promise of something better. The 

resulting loss of self-respect is not 

neutralised by a few quarters of rising 

wages. 

Anger has sown hatred in America. Feeling 

themselves victims of an unfair economic 

system, ordinary Americans blame the 

elites in Washington for being too spineless 

and too stupid to stand up to foreigners and 

big business; or, worse, they believe that 

the elites themselves are part of the 

conspiracy. They repudiate the media— 

including this newspaper—for being 

patronising, partisan and as out of touch 

and elitist as the politicians. Many workingclass 

white voters feel threatened by 

economic and demographic decline. Some 

of them think racial minorities are bought off 

by the Democratic machine. Rural 

Americans detest the socially liberal values 

that urban compatriots foist upon them by 

supposedly manipulating the machinery in 

Washington (see article). Republicans have 

behaved as if working with Democrats is 

treachery. 

Mr Trump harnessed this popular anger 

brilliantly. Those who could not bring 

themselves to vote for him may wonder 

how half of their compatriots were willing to 

overlook his treatment of women, his 

pandering to xenophobes and his rank 

disregard for the facts. There is no reason 

to conclude that all Trump voters approve 

of his behaviour. For some of them, his 

flaws are insignificant next to the One Big 

Truth: that America needs fixing. For others 

the willingness to break taboos was proof 

that he is an outsider. As commentators 

have put it, his voters took Mr Trump 

seriously but not literally, even as his critics 

took him literally but not seriously. The 

hapless Hillary Clinton might have won the 

popular vote, but she stood for everything 

angry voters despise. 

The hope is that this election will prove 

cathartic. Perhaps, in office, Mr Trump will 

be pragmatic and magnanimous—as he 

was in his acceptance speech. Perhaps he 

will be King Donald, a figurehead and 

tweeter-in-chief who presides over an 

executive vice-president and a cabinet of 

competent, reasonable people. When he 

decides against building a wall against 

Mexico after all or concludes that a trade 

war with China is not a wise idea, his voters 

may not mind too much—because they only 

expected him to make them feel proud and 

to put conservative justices in the Supreme 

Court. Indeed, you can just about imagine a 

future in which extra infrastructure 

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spending, combined with deregulation, tax 

cuts, a stronger dollar and the repatriation 

of corporate profits, boosts the American 

economy for long enough to pacify the 

anger. This more emollient Trump might 

even model himself on Ronald Reagan, a 

conservative hero who was mocked and 

underestimated, too. 

Nothing would make us happier than to see 

Mr Trump succeed in this way. But whereas 

Reagan was an optimist, Mr Trump rails 

against the loss of an imagined past. We 

are deeply sceptical that he will make a 

good president—because of his policies, 

his temperament and the demands of 

political office. 

Gravity wins in the end 

Take his policies first. After the sugar rush, 

populist policies eventually collapse under 

their own contradictions. Mr Trump has 

pledged to scrap the hated Obamacare. But 

that threatens to deprive over 20m hard-up 

Americans of health insurance. His tax cuts 

would chiefly benefit the rich and they 

would be financed by deficits that would 

increase debt-to-GDP by 25 percentage 

points by 2026. Even if he does not actually 

deport illegal immigrants, he will foment the 

divisive politics of race. Mr Trump has 

demanded trade concessions from China, 

Mexico and Canada on threat of tariffs and 

the scrapping of the North American Free 

Trade Agreement. His protectionism would 

further impoverish poor Americans, who 

gain more as consumers from cheap 

imports than they would as producers from 

suppressed competition. If he caused a 

trade war, the fragile global economy could 

tip into a recession. With interest rates near 

zero, policymakers would struggle to 

respond. 

Abroad Mr Trump says he hates the deal 

freezing Iran’s nuclear programme. If it fails, 

he would have to choose between attacking 

Iran’s nuclear sites and seeing nuclear 

proliferation in the Middle East (see article). 

He wants to reverse the Paris agreement 

on climate change; apart from harming the 

planet, that would undermine America as a 

negotiating partner. Above all, he would 

erode America’s alliances—its greatest 

strength. Mr Trump has demanded that 

other countries pay more towards their 

security or he will walk away. His 

bargaining would weaken NATO, leaving 

front-line eastern European states 

vulnerable to Russia. It would encourage 

Chinese expansion in the South China Sea. 

Japan and South Korea may be tempted to 

arm themselves with nuclear weapons. 

The second reason to be wary is 

temperament. During the campaign Mr 

Trump was narcissistic, thin-skinned and illdisciplined. 

Yet the job of the most powerful 

man in the world constantly entails daily 

humiliations at home and abroad. When 

congressmen mock him, insult him and 

twist his words, his effectiveness will 

depend on his willingness to turn the other 

cheek and work for a deal. When a judge 

hears a case for fraud against Trump 

University in the coming weeks, or rules 

against his administration’s policies when 

he is in office, he must stand back (selfrestraint 

that proved beyond him when he 

was a candidate). When journalists 

ridiculed him in the campaign he threatened 

to open up libel laws. In office he must 

ignore them or try to talk them round. When 

sovereign governments snub him he must 

calculate his response according to 

America’s interests, not his own wounded 

pride. If Mr Trump fails to master his 

resentments, his presidency will soon 

become bogged down in a morass of petty 

conflicts. 

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The third reason to be wary is the demands 

of office. No problem comes to the 

president unless it is fiendishly complicated. 

Yet Mr Trump has shown no evidence that 

he has the mastery of detail or sustained 

concentration that the Oval Office 

demands. He could delegate (as Reagan 

famously did), but his campaign team 

depended to an unusual degree on his 

family and on political misfits. He has 

thrived on the idea that his experience in 

business will make him a master negotiator 

in politics. Yet if a deal falls apart there is 

always another skyscraper to buy or 

another golf course to build; by contrast, a 

failure to agree with Vladimir Putin about 

Russia’s actions leaves nobody to turn to. 

Nowhere will judgment and experience be 

more exposed than over the control of 

America’s nuclear arsenal—which, in a 

crisis, falls to him and him alone. 

The election of Mr Trump is a rebuff to all 

liberals, including this newspaper. The open 

markets and classically liberal democracy 

that we defend, and which had seemed to 

be affirmed in 1989, have been rejected by 

the electorate first in Britain and now in 

America. France, Italy and other European 

countries may well follow. It is clear that 

popular support for the Western order 

depended more on rapid growth and the 

galvanising effect of the Soviet threat than 

on intellectual conviction. Recently Western 

democracies have done too little to spread 

the benefits of prosperity. Politicians and 

pundits took the acquiescence of the 

disillusioned for granted. As Mr Trump 

prepares to enter the White House, the 

long, hard job of winning the argument for 

liberal internationalism begins anew. 

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The pendulum swings out 

The genius of America’s constitution is to 

limit the harm one president can do. We 

hope Mr Trump proves our doubts 

groundless or that, if he fails, a better 

president will be along in four years. The 

danger with popular anger, though, is that 

disillusion with Mr Trump will only add to 

the discontent that put him there in the first 

place. If so, his failure would pave the way 

for someone even more bent on breaking 

the system. 

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TAYLOR SWIFT & SQUAD 

Martha Hunt as "Martha Brady," 

Gigi Hadid as a cub scout, Taylor 

Swift as Deadpol, Lily Donaldson as 

a space cadet, Camila Cabelo as a 

cat lady, Kennedy Rayee as a cat 

and Emmie Gundler as Black Swan. 

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Fall Fashion 

Statement 

2016 

KYLIE JENNER (2016) 

As a skeleton, debuting the first costume 

of 2016. 

Hollywood Fashion… 

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Hello 

beautiful 

people, 

I hope you are all having a 

wonderful October. I, personally, 

am incredibly excited by cooling 

weather, which leads to all things 

amazing. How ready are you for 

snuggly sweaters, hot coffee in a 

cute mug, and the smell of 

bonfires. Another amazing thing 

that I've been enjoying is Fashion 

Month. I've been keeping up with 

my favorite fashion bloggers 

through their social media sites and 

I swear I feel like I've been there 

with them. (Although, I am a bit 

sad that it's over now.) Have you 

guys been keeping up? 

I think this this outfit was very much 

inspired by the street style I saw 

while creeping on their gorgeous 

Instagram stories and snapchats. 

I decided I needed to start off fall 

with a bang. In celebration of the 

cooling weather, I thought I 

needed to break out the coolest 

jacket I own (puns are fun haha). 

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since it's fall and all! I brought out 

the color with this simple ribbed, 

mock-neck top. Of course, I 

added my go-to black skinnies. I 

chose my Rowley sunglasses 

because they just elevate any 

outfit, and they went so well with 

the style of my jacket. Finally, I 

finished off my outfit with my laceup 

booties from Aldo. 

What are some of your favorite 

things about fall? Let me know 

down in the comments! Reading 

your comments is always one of my 

favorite things. Follow me on 

Instagram so see some more 

photos of my face and things I love 

:) As always, I am so appreciative 

of all of your support. Love you 

guys! 

Mediterranean Diet Tips Best of the Best: 

The huge myth about vegetables: 

To go with my beautiful BCBG 

jacket, I decided to bring out the 

burnt orange color in the jacket, 

There is a belief circulating out there that frozen 

fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than 

fresh. For some people I know, this concept is 

sacrilege. They worship at the Alter of Mother 

Nature and consider eating all packaged foods to 

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be an act of self-abuse. Others depend primarily 

on the frozen food aisle for their “food-borne” 

vitamins, citing convenience, lower price and the 

belief that it doesn’t really matter as their reasons. 

It turns out that there are pros and cons to each 

choice, a couple of which had not occurred to me 

prior to studying the issue. Let’s examine the 

good and bad of fresh versus frozen. 

Fresh Produce 

Pros 

Cons 

1. When locally or home grown, fresh, ripe 

produce is as nutrient-dense as it can be. 

2. Generally better taste and texture than 

any other form, dried, canned or frozen. 

3. Lose moisture and become susceptible to 

spoilage within days. 

4. Significant loss of nutrient value begins to 

occur after 48 hours. 

5. Storage and travel to market can cause 

nutrient loss. 

6. When not locally grown, picked before 

peak nutrient density has been reached. 

7. More expensive. 

Frozen Produce 

Pros 

Cons 

8. Usually harvested at peak ripeness, 

which allows highest nutrient density to be 

achieved. 

9. Flash frozen, which allows retention of 

most nutrient value. 

10. Very little nutrient value is lost because 

fruits are not blanched before freezing. 

11. Generally less expensive than fresh. 

12. Less waste due to spoilage. 

13. Blanching to preserve color of vegetables 

and kill harmful bacteria denatures water 

soluble vitamins like C and B. 

14. Some antioxidants may be reduced in 

strength due to freezing 

15. May contain additives such as: sugar 

(fruits) or sodium, fat and preservatives 

(vegetables) 

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The Verdict 

Most Americans eat only one-third of the fruits 

and vegetables recommended for daily 

consumption. In part, this is due to the very busy, 

time-constrained lives that we live in this country. 

If pulling some spinach out of the freezer gets 

more green leafy phyto-nutrients into you, 

because you can’t take the time to triple wash the 

fresh stuff before preparing, then by all means do 

so. In other words, any difference in nutrient value 

is negligible when weighed against the alternative 

of not eating fruits and vegies at all. 

But, remember, fresh or frozen, how you cook it 

makes all the difference in nutritional value. Avoid 

boiling your vegetables for an extended period of 

time. Either steam or blanch and sauté your 

vegies for best taste and nutrition. 

A Final Thought 

I personally try to eat fresh, locally grown fruits 

and vegetables when they are in season. That 

means I shop at the local farmers market. I think 

this is best for taste and nutrition. Out of season, I 

use frozen produce very frequently and year 

round I use frozen berries in my protein shakes. It 

works well for me to use a mixture of fresh and 

frozen. 

But I don’t stop there; I believe that our depleted 

soils and compromised farming practices have 

degraded the nutrient value of much of the food 

that we eat. Thus, I supplement my fruit and 

vegetable nutrition daily with a high-quality, 

nutrient-rich drink like UltraNourish. The organic 

fruits and vegetables used in this product are 

certified organic, harvested at their peak ripeness, 

and cold-processed for optimal nutritional value. 

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4 social 

media 

trends you 

need to 

know going 

into 2016 

Hey everyone – Molly here to talk about 

social media marketing trends you should 

know when planning your upcoming 

strategies. 

First – Social media searches are becoming 

more powerful. Pinterest announced a 

visual search feature, where users can 

actually click within an image to open a new 

search. For example, if you’re looking at a 

picture of a living room and want to see 

more lamps like the one featured in the 

picture, you can click the lamp, and you’ll 

be directed to search results for products 

like that one. 

The next big trend: Live social broadcasts 

are a thing – and it’s not just for the Red 

Bulls and Coca Colas of the world. People 

know the difference between ‘reality TV’ 

and ‘reality’ and they’re more likely to trust 

a brand that can showexactly what’s 

happening as it’s happening. With 

programs like Periscope and Facebook’s 

new Facebook Live Broadcasts, this is a 

strategy to explore for 2016. 

Even if you’re not ready to explore live 

broadcasts, videos are still critical to your 

 

 

 

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social strategy. We’ve said this hundreds of 

times – but it’s worth repeating that video 

isn’t a can’t miss-trend for social marketing. 

Consider that: 

Videos average 62% more engagement than 

photos 

Video shares increased 43% at the start of this 

year 

Facebook just announced it sees an average of 

eight billion views a day from 500 million 

people. 

If you’re not producing short, 

compelling videos for social, what are 

you waiting for? 

Finally – Inbound messages for social 

customer service are going up. Sprout 

Social reports that across industries, brands 

have received 32% more inbound 

messages this year than last. The problem 

is that brands still haven’t figured out a 

game plan for answering – as 82% of 

messages that brands receive go without 

response. Have room and resource for 

some 1:1 engagement in your social plan to 

stay ahead. 

Remember: Keep social, social. People 

want to see, watch and hear from real life 

people. And that’s the whole point of social 

media to begin with, isn’t it? 

Check back every Monday for your 

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Molly Buccini is Brafton's community manager. She 

joined the team with a background in digital


journalism and social media. She's a theatre nerd, 

pop culture junkie and lover of summertime. 

Best of Baja California 

Max Kim-Bee 

From the resort-filled 

playground of Los Cabos to 

the vast, deserted East 

Cape, Mexico's Baja 

California is a study in 

contrasts—which is part of 

the allure of this sundrenched 

peninsula. Here, an 

essential guide to the 

region. 

In 1940, John Steinbeck ventured on a 

marine collecting expedition to Baja 

California, a peninsula off Mexico's 

west coast; he found more signs of life 

in the tidal pools than on land. His Log 

from the Sea of Cortez speaks of an 

ocean's edge inhabited by crabs, 

prickly urchins, and white periwinkles. 

Borrowing a fisherman's term, 

Steinbeck called this patch of the 

Pacific "tuna water—life water." He 

wasn't kidding. A congress of gulls and 

dolphins—and men—negotiate over 

schools of tuna. The first time I 

watched the ocean turn a deep purple 

off the Gorda Banks, I was hooked too. 

These days, locals still refer to Baja as 

La Frontera, the frontier, because it 

still remains largely undeveloped, 

except for the desert peninsula's tip, 

where Los Cabos (the Capes) is 

booming. New hotels and restaurants 

are crowding the shoreline, nonstop 

flights were recently inaugurated from 

the East Coast, and half of Hollywood 

is sneaking down here on breaks. But 

for me, Los Cabos is about 

homegrown banda (Latin polka) 

concerts, impromptu horse races, or 

kicking back with a chilly Pacifico beer 

and a succulent shrimp taco. And 

there's always a fish nibbling at the end 

of your trolling jig. That's tuna water 

for you. 

LAY OF THE LAND 

Baja California is bordered by the 

Pacific and the Sea of Cortés, which 

was praisedby Jacques Cousteau for its 

coral reef. It's divided into two states, 

Baja Sur and Baja Norte, and traversed 

by the Transpeninsular Highway 

(High-way 1), which winds a thousand 

miles south from Tijuana. The road 

rumbles with tractor trailers and 

battered pickups; at night, unlit 

stretches can turn hazardous when 

free-ranging longhorns snooze on the 

asphalt. 

Baja Sur The arid home to Los Cabos 

balances cattle ranching with tourism 

on a coastline dotted with deserted 

beaches and sheltered bays. Inland, the 

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Sierra de Laguna mountain range 

funnels rainfall down sandy arroyos. 

Baja Norte A region of fertile 

vineyards and commercial fishing 

towns. 

Los Cabos Talk about contrasts. Once 

the harbor of a solitary tuna cannery, 

the port town of Cabo San Lucas has 

become a nonstop fiesta machine 

packed with souvenir stalls, cigar 

shops, and theme bars. Off the coast, 

the remarkable rock formation of El 

Arco marks Land's End. Twenty miles 

away, colonial San José del Cabo clings 

tenaciously to its Mexican heart and 

soul; narrow side streets reveal sleepy 

cantinas and folk-art boutiques. 

The Tourist Corridor A 20-mile 

four-lane highway between the two 

major cape towns is lined with sandy 

beaches, golf courses, and a heavy 

concentration of glitzy resorts. 

East Cape An undeveloped region of 

dirt roads, dive shacks, and surf camps 

that is some 50 miles north of Los 

Cabos, on Bahía de Palmas in the Sea 

of Cortés. The two main fishing villages 

are Los Barriles and Buena Vista. 

Farther Afield Todos Santos, one of 

Baja's colonial towns, is an hour north 

of Los Cabos—and a world apart. If 

you're willing to endure a grueling 

drive or a bumpy twin-prop flight, it's 

worth the detour 250 miles north on 

the peninsula to Bahía Magdalena, a 

saltwater breeding lagoon near the 

cannery town of Puerto López Mateos 

where gray whales migrate annually. 

What to Do 

FISHING More than a half a century 

ago, legendary anglers like John 

Wayne and Ernest Hemingway were 

lured to Cabo for wrestling matches 

with the Big Three: black marlin, blue 

marlin, and sailfish. Today, the biggame 

fishing is still considered some of 

the world's best, with several 

professional contests held annually. 

Captain Tony Berkowitz of San Lucas 

Yachts (52-624/147-5679; from $500 

for four people) can arrange 

charters. Picante Bluewater 

Sportsfishing (52-624/143-2474; 

day charter from $955 for five people) 

and Pisces Sportfishing & Luxury 

Yacht Charters (52-624/143-1288 or 

619/819-7983; day charter from $320 

for four people) also have Englishspeaking 

captains and tournamentcaliber 

gear. 

DIVING About 1 1/2 hours northeast 

of San José, Cabo Pulmo shelters the 

only coral reef system in the Sea of 

Cortés. Stretching a mile offshore, this 

national marine park teems with 

parrot fish, moray eels, manta rays, 

and giant coral heads. Vista Sea 

Sport (Buena Vista; 52-624/141- 

0031; two-hour trips $35 per person) 

takes you snorkeling among sea turtles 

or diving under the reef of El Bajo de 

los Morros. 

SURFING The nomadic surf tribes 

from SoCal and Hawaii love the long 

barrels, cheap combo platters, and 

even cheaper digs at casual trailer 

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parks scattered up and down the coast. 

Look for great wave action at Playa 

Costa Azul, which fronts San José, and 

the expansive beaches of Los Cerritos 

and San Pedrito, 33 miles north of Los 

Cabos. On San Pedrito, expat surfer 

Patricia Baum's ecofriendly 

Teampaty Surf 

Camp(www.todossantos.cc/ecosurfc 

amp.html; lessons $20 an hour) has 

the best rental gear and instructors on 

the peninsula. BajaWild (San José; 

52-624/142- 

5300; www.bajawild.com; lessons 

from $65 per person) runs daylong 

classes on both the East Cape and 

Pacific shores. 

WHALE-WATCHING From 

January to March, thousands of gray 

whales migrate from the Bering Sea to 

protected lagoons along the Pacific 

Coast. The best place for close 

encounters of the Moby kind is Bahía 

Magdalena. Aéreo Calafia (Plazas 

Las Glorias hotel, Cabo San Lucas; 

52-624/143-4302; day trips from 

$381 per person) provides certified 

guides, boats, lunch, and round-trip 

flights. A naturalist for Tofino 

Expeditions (800/677- 

0877; www.tofino.com; from $1,050 

per person, including all meals) leads 

weeklong sea kayaking trips to observe 

grays and birdlife in Mag Bay. Sleep in 

safari tents pitched on fawn-colored 

dunes, paddle calm bayside waters, 

and watch white ibis scour the 

mangroves. 

BEACHING IT Powerful riptides and 

brisk Playa Las Viudas, the 

Corridor Also known as Twin 

Dolphin Beach. Perfect for picnicking 

and prowling tidal pools. Wear rubber 

surf mocs. 

El Médano, Cabo San 

Lucas Fronted by barefoot bars and 

restaurants, this two-mile beach is 

water sports central: Jet Ski rentals, 

parasailing. 

Playa del Amor, Cabo San 

Lucas A smooth stretch of sand close 

to Land's End. Reachable from the 

marina by water taxi. 

Playa San Pedro (Las Palmas), 

Todos Santos Shallow water 

protected by promontories. Look for a 

sandy road next to a palm grove at Km 

57 off Highway 19. 

Where to Stay 

Before the Transpeninsular Highway 

was completed in 1973, Los Cabos 

remained the backwater that Steinbeck 

encountered. It wasn't until the mid- 

1990's that the Mexican government 

began developing the region for 

tourism. Since then, resort hotels, golf 

courses, and condo complexes have 

quickly brought the 21st century to La 

Frontera. Sadly, some of the new 

architecture along the shoreline is less 

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than considered. However, a few 

havens of style have kept the 

neighborhood from going to the 

coyotes. 

TOP RESORTS Esperanza The 

Technicolor sunsets look digitally 

enhanced at this lavish 56-room resort 

on Punta Ballena, or Whale Point, 

which lives up to its name when the 

humpbacks arrive for the winter 

season. What Esperanza lacks in 

shoreline—it has two tiny coves—the 

resort compensates for with rare 

tequila tastings, Baja lime-scented 

bath products, and a spa where garden 

paths are illuminated by candles after 

dusk. Esperanza's huge, airy rooms 

blend folksy (woven Guadalajara 

carpets, paintings by emerging 

Mexican artists) and modern 

necessities (wide-screen TV's). Ask for 

a top-floor room: the private terraces 

have infinity-edge hot tubs and 

unobstructed views of Land's End. Km 

3.5 Carretera Transpeninsular; 52- 

624/145-6400 or 866/311- 

2226; www.esperanzaresort.com; 

doubles from $550. 

Hotel Twin Dolphin Even after 26 

years, this white-on-white retreat 

remains the most unpretentious in 

Cabo San Lucas. Isolated on 135 acres 

of the Sonoran Desert, the hotel has an 

angular Frank Lloyd Wright starkness 

to its open-air lobby, lounge, and 50 

one-story casitas. Despite some 

cracked walkways and tattered 

slipcovers—the hotel will soon be 

undergoing a renovation—such icons 

of cool as Bob Weir of the Grateful 

Dead and designer Kate Spade are 

regulars. Km 12 Carretera 

Transpeninsular; 800/421-8925or 52- 

624/145- 

8191; www.twindolphin.com; doubles 

from $250. 

Las Ventanas al Paraíso The 61- 

suite "window to paradise" has a 

muted Mex-Med vibe. A Zen-inspired 

raked-sand entrance opens to beach 

views from the restaurant, private 

rooftop patios, and infinity-edge pools, 

where butlers clean SPF smudges off 

your Silhouettes. Suites have pebbleinlaid 

headboards, hand-carved cedar 

doors, wood-burning fireplaces, and 

telescopes for stargazing. At night, 

waiters set up tables in the alfresco 

restaurant with embroidered Otomí 

cloths from Guadalajara. (Order pastry 

chef Steven Lindsay's silky Baja lime 

pie—it's worth every calorie.) Km 19.5 

Carretera 

NATIVE CHARMER Casa 

Natalia Nathalie and Loïc Tenoux 

have fashioned a contemporary 

enclave facing a quiet square in 

historic San José that's for people who 

don't require ocean views or 24-hour 

butler service. What you get instead is 

a courtyard shaded by palms, with 

cascading waterfalls and terraces 

swathed in bougainvillea. The 16 

rooms have regional flair, with 

embroidered pillows, Talavera pottery, 

and hand-hewn beams. 4 Blvd. 

Mijares, San José; 888/277- 

3814; www.casanatalia.com; doubles 

from $240. 

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THE NEW PLAYER One & Only 

Palmilla Things will change radically 

when the Palmilla reopens this coming 

February as the 172-room One & Only 

Palmilla. So what does an $80 million 

makeover from legendary hotelier Sol 

Kerzner get you?Adam Tihany 

designing a sea-foam fantasy for 

Charlie Trotter's C Restaurant, which 

will have an ambitious Caribbean- 

Mexican fusion menu. Kerzner has also 

tempted away Edward Steiner, the 

managing director who helped put Las 

Ventanas on every Hollywood Palm 

Pilot. Expect greatness. Km 7.5 

Carretera Transpeninsular, San José; 

52-624/146-7000 or 800/637- 

2226; www.oneandonlypalmilla.com; 

doubles from $425. 

Where to Eat 

The only Spanish word you need to 

learn to dine well in Baja 

is mariscos (seafood). With fish 

straight from the bountiful Gorda 

Banks, most Los Cabos restaurants 

resist Food Network flourishes: 

tortillas are hot off the griddle, , 

the mole is ground by hand, and the 

salsa contains locally grown chiles. 

Look for outstanding chiles rellenos at 

trailer-park palapas (thatched-roof 

huts); snack on fried pork rinds from a 

street cart in San José; or sip cold 

coconut milk at a roadside Cocos Fríos 

truck. Of course, if your napkins have 

to be Frette rather than paper, Los 

Cabos has a parallel culinary universe, 

in which a coterie of New Mex chefs 

are already sharpening their knives for 

the day Charlie Trotter comes to town. 

TACO BELLES Taquería 

Rossy The chairs are plastic; so are 

the blue-and-white-checked 

tablecloths. Both locals and snowbirds 

perch here for succulent, lightly 

battered shrimp and scallops folded 

inside handmade flour or corn 

tortillas. The salad bar is loaded with a 

multitude of salsas, roasted chiles, lime 

wedges, and other fixin's, but all you 

really need is a bottle of hot sauce and 

a Corona. Manuel Doblado and Hwy. 

1, San José; 52-624/142-6755; lunch 

for two $10. 

Carnitas El Michoacáno Around 

the corner from Rossy's, this humble 

taquería specializes in juicy pork tacos. 

Atkins dieters ask for puro carne; 

others go whole hog with gorgeously 

greasy costillas (ribs). Calle Pescador y 

Panga, San José; 52-624/146-9848; 

lunch for two $12. 

When Hillary met Bill 

When Bill met Hillary 

Before they were the world's most 

powerful team, they were kids grappling 

with politics, art and a shocking death 

TOPICS: BILL CLINTON, BOOKS, HILLARY 

CLINTON, POLITICS, RELATIONSHIPS, WRITERS AND 

WRITING, POLITICS NEWS 

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say yes to a long-term relationship. It was a 

story repeated again and again, throughout 

his stay in England and now on his return. 

Instead of sustained commitments, he had 

begun a chronic pattern of carrying on 

multiple relationships marked by no honest 

communication with the various women 

involved. Where would all that lead? 

At Yale, Clinton found an answer—another 

person, equally bright, just as driven to 

break barriers and change the world. She 

was almost as complicated as he was— 

perhaps even more so—with a family 

history that came close to his in its crazy 

dynamics. Hillary Rodham would change 

his life. He would change hers. And from 

the moment of their meeting, they created a 

partnership, both political and personal, that 

helped shape the course of the country. 

* * * 

Excerpted from "Bill and Hillary: The Politics 

of the Personal," available September 4 from 

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 

When Bill Clinton arrived at Yale in the fall 

of 1970, one thing was clear: Politics would 

be the singular focus of his life. Far less 

clear were his other priorities. He continued 

to exude charm and affability, drawing to 

himself potential political allies, personal 

friends, and devoted acolytes. But what 

about his intellectual life? Did academics 

matter? Should he prepare for a 

professional career if politics did not work 

out? More important, would he be able to 

reconcile his parallel lives? In particular, 

how would he resolve his persistent inability 

to sustain a long-term relationship with a 

woman? Repeatedly, he had commented 

on his lack of commitment to others. His 

relationship with Ann Markusen—whom he 

first started to date at Georgetown—had 

broken off, even though he said he loved 

her, because he could not bring himself to 

There are multiple stories about how the 

two met. The classic version, told 

repeatedly, is that they had noticed each 

other early on. She was in her second year, 

he in his first. But rather than start a 

conversation, they circled each other warily, 

each sizing the other up. Then one day in 

the library, after Bill kept gazing at Hillary 

down at the other end of the Gothic-arched 

room, Hillary strode up to him and said, in 

effect, “Look, if we’re going to spend all this 

time staring at each other, we should at 

least get to know who the other is.”And the 

rest, supposedly, is history. 

Robert Reich claims to have introduced the 

two at the beginning of the semester. But 

nothing happened. In Bill Clinton’s memoir, 

he says that he saw Hillary for the first time 

in a class on political and civil rights. “She 

had thick dark blond hair,” he wrote, “and 

wore eyeglasses and no makeup. But she 

conveyed a sense of strength and selfpossession 

I had rarely seen in anyone, 

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man or woman.” Still another version has 

Bill following Hillary around campus. At the 

time, she was still dating David Rupert. He 

caught up with her on her way to 

registration and joined her in the line, even 

though he had already registered. Then the 

two went off and talked their way into the 

Yale Art Museum, which was closed, but 

which had a special exhibit on Mark Rothko 

that they both wanted to see. In this story, 

according to Bill’s memoir, she sat down in 

the lap of a Henry Moore sculpture, and he 

sat beside her. “Before long,” he wrote, “I 

leaned over and put my head on her 

shoulder. It was our first date.” 

Whatever the sequence, a spark had been 

struck. Clinton phoned Hillary soon after the 

museum experience and discovered she 

was sick. Immediately, and unbidden, he 

went to her house with orange juice and 

chicken soup. Clinton’s courtship had 

commenced. Electricity was in the air. 

Clinton, a friend of Hillary’s said, was “the 

wild card in her well-ordered cerebral 

existence.” She had charted a wellorganized 

campaign to achieve her ends in 

her own way, and now a new and powerful 

presence was scrambling her best-laid 

plans. 

in love with Bill Clinton” was the most exciting 

thing to happen to her in the 1970s. For Bill, 

Hillary was something different. Other women 

had embodied some of what he now found with 

Hillary. His lifelong friendship with Carolyn 

Staley was always more substantive than 

romantic. For three years, he combined 

romance and friendship in his relationship with 

Denise Hyland. But that dynamic had less of a 

cutting edge, fewer direct challenges. Ann 

Markusen at Georgetown was the closest he 

had come to being involved with a person like 

Hillary. But she was perhaps too independent, 

too “in his face,” too unwilling to accommodate 

his style and find a modus vivendi that would 

allow them to develop as a couple. Hillary was 

different. While clearly unwilling to be 

submissive, she was sufficiently enchanted 

that, arguably for the first time, she considered 

melding her own ambitions to change the world 

with those of someone else in a joint endeavor. 

In his memoir, Bill declared he simply liked 

being around Hillary “because I thought I’d 

never be bored with her. In the beginning I used 

to tell her that I would like being old with her.” 

An interesting perspective. Not romantic. Not 

impetuous. Rather, a vision over time—a long 

time. 

“He was the first man I’d met,” she told one 

interviewer, “who wasn’t afraid of me.” 

Nevertheless, the attraction was sufficiently 

strong that from that semester forward, Bill 

Clinton and Hillary Rodham were inextricably 

linked. “She was in my face from the start,” Bill 

Clinton recalled, “and, before I knew it, in my 

heart.” Hillary, in turn, remembered that “falling 

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