In the evening, take a dip in the heated indoor pool before enjoying a cocktail and chart-topping sunset views on the rooftop garden.

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He is 65 and has 16 months left on his contract before driving his half-ton pickup truck off into the sunset on his arid, scrubby ranch in southern Texas.

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The lapsed Senator is really working those long, NBA-tested legs, partly because he feels good--his kickoff speech went well, close to 100 media types are covering him, and the latest polls put him just a few points behind Gore in New Hampshire--and partly because he has only half an hour before sunset, and he wants to lead us to the banks of the Mississippi before then.

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But Ms. Delpy and her collaborators, actor-writer Ethan Hawke and writer-director Richard Linklater, would go on to create "Before Sunset" (2004) and "Before Midnight, " which opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles after an enthusiastic reception on the festival circuit.

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Listen to the sound of rustling palms as you sprawl out under a thatched hut at sunset, and continue to stretch your legs-only this time, in your bathtub-before dinner.

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