This beachside barbecue is held one or two evenings a week at the luxurious Shanti Maurice resort.

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For Henny, Shanti was the sole link to her past life in Berlin, a city that she was never to revisit.

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But overall, Shanti and Buck Curran get it right, with memorable songs that linger in the ether long after the last track ends.

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This scenario can be a manager's nightmare, and it's happening more frequently with the growing prevalence of social networking, says Shanti Atkins, president of ELT Inc.

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Shanti and Buck Curran, who write and record under the name Arborea, are pitched as a husband-and-wife folk duo from Maine, but there's very little in their songs that resembles traditional roots music.

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His affection for her is visible in the letters he writes from the war front, but Shanti had to reconcile himself to a relationship in which there were rooms that were closed off.

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"We felt that a person who could think of doing this 27 years ago obviously had tremendous faith in the reliability of the Indian railway network and we felt that we needed to acknowledge that and respond to it adequately, " said Shanti Narain, a member of the Indian railway board.

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