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...Secretary of State Colin Powell; former Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki; and Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's former No. 3 civilian, among others. All told, says a staffer for the Iraq Study Group, "they had 40 of the top experts on Iraq brief them for hours. They had access to anyone they wanted...
...serviced apartments for $10 million to $16 million apiece in a project it calls St. Andrews Grand. And on a bluff overlooking the town, billionaire developer Tim Blixseth is planning a course that will form part of an opulent time-share program, Yellowstone Club World, that gives members access, via a fleet of three private jets, to nine sites around the world, including St. Andrews. Membership starts at $3 million. The town's existing North American--owned luxury hotels--Kohler Co.'s Old Course Hotel, which owns the nearby Duke's Course, and the Fairmont St. Andrews--are both undergoing...
...sell high-end time shares, apartments or hotel rooms come to a town that views golf as an Everyman's game and itself as the guardian of that ethos? The Old Course is a muni run by a charitable trust, which charges locals $250 a year for unlimited access (visitors pay the same price for one round). Wasserman's St. Andrews Grand markets itself on the back of the Old Course's history, but its occupants, because they are not full-time residents, will not have discounted or privileged access to the Old Course (nor will Yellowstone members). Instead, Wasserman...
...country currently has an estimated 16 million Internet users - one in five of the population - compared with just 200,000 who were online seven years ago. Three million of them are bloggers, most on foreign-hosted clients including Yahoo, which is where the fake government blogs appeared. Internet access in Vietnam is growing more than 10 times faster than the rate in China...
...Like China, Vietnam uses a firewall to block access to pornography and political websites, and is talking about censoring blogs - although that is more difficult because most are posted on foreign-based websites. But the impostor blog campaign could well be an innovation in the ongoing battle between the Party and its opponents for the hearts and minds of Vietnamese Internet users. The identity of the fake bloggers remains a mystery. The rhetoric of their postings mimics official jargon, but is subtly peppered with anti-communist barbs. The fake "Nong Duc Manh blog," for instance, features a post on corruption...