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On Nov. 20, the Dom Pérignon is set to flow as international revelers from Robert De Niro and Jean Paul Gaultier to Bollywood star Bipasha Basu gather to celebrate the grand opening of the Atlantis, a $1.5 billion, 1,500-room hotel resort that is over-the-top...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Ambition in Dubai | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

The decision to go ahead with the high-gloss opening, even as hotel bookings evaporate across the world, is yet another brash statement of Dubai's ambition and confidence. "In Dubai, if you have a fantasy, you don't just fantasize about it, you build it," says Sultan bin Sulayem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Ambition in Dubai | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

Kerzner earned his rep as a world-class risk taker by building Sun City, a Las Vegas-style gambling and entertainment complex in a black "homeland" at the height of the apartheid era in South Africa. Critics argued that he was profiting from a much-criticized feature of the apartheid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Ambition in Dubai | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

Some might see a Jewish businessman investing hundreds of millions of dollars with Arab partners in the heart of the conflict-prone Middle East as a man taking the gamble of a lifetime. Not Kerzner. He came here soon after his plan to build a casino complex in the Israeli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Ambition in Dubai | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

The global slump hasn't been the only bad omen for the launch of the Atlantis in Dubai. Only weeks before the resort welcomed its first paying guests with a soft opening in September, a fire caused by welders engulfed the hotel's lobby. That produced a public-relations nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Ambition in Dubai | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

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