PALO ALTO, California - The living room of Eliane Karp Toledo's
home is a perfect setting for her contradiction-filled life.
Almost nothing in it matches anything else. A wooden armchair
upholstered in blue fabric with white dots stands across from a
metal armchair with heavy leather upholstery. A massive, dark
brown grandfather clock, like the kind one finds in antique
shops, looks down on a bouquet of bold-red tulips, and artistic
photographs in black and white are hanging adjacent to abstract
paintings done with thick brush strokes.  The design is just
right for Eliane Karp - the daughter of Holocaust survivors who
fell in love with the Indians of America, the former member of
the left-wing Hashomer Hatzair youth movement who worked for the
World Bank, the pale-skinned redhead who married an Inca Indian.
However, she points out, the decor is not her doing. This is
only a temporary home; her real home is still in Peru. This
house, in Palo Alto, was rented from a professor at Stanford
University, where she a