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...sets across the rusting roofs of Stone Town, the cry of the local muezzin merges with the chimes from a Hindu temple and drifts skyward. The brilliant-hued canopy above me flaps lazily in the evening breeze that blows in from the Indian Ocean. I'm dining in the roofless rooftop restaurant of the Emerson & Green hotel on Zanzibar, the semi-autonomous island off Tanzania, one of the most romantic spots on the planet. Once the opulent palace of a wealthy Swahili trader, the hotel has just 10 rooms, but each one is exquisite: the North room features a large...
...incidental and spontaneous entertainments in the Magic Kingdom, such as the trash can, are uniformly brilliant. You?re walking down Main Street and suddenly a horse-drawn trolley pauses and a half-dozen kids jump off and start dancing as a showtune plays. At the castle several times a day, Cinderella and friends act out a lively tableaux for the edification of those in the plaza below. The cumulative effect, over a couple of days, is to convince the children that they are in another country - on another planet - where, at any given moment, something extraordinary might happen. ?I want...
...knew even when Brian was a junior that something special was going on,” says Moran. “Brian was clearly headed for a brilliant career in theoretical physics...
...They are so popular through so many other outlets that everything dovetails," says retail analyst Heather Brilliant at Morningstar. "And while Wal-Mart could be considered lower quality, the Olsen twins have established a brand separation that allows them to avoid the Wal-Mart impact." Within six months, stores in Japan, Germany, Israel and probably Korea will carry their lines. In the U.S., the teen lines are expanding with more sophisticated styling. Freestanding mary-kateandashley stores are being considered for Los Angeles and New York City, where the girls will be attending New York University. "Our goal is to keep...
George W. Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate defied the usual calculus of vice-presidential selection: a retired Cabinet Secretary from a state with just three electoral votes plus a charisma deficit didn't appear to equal a brilliant electoral strategy. But Cheney, it turned out, seemed to compensate for Bush's perceived weaknesses. Though only 5 1/2 years older than Bush, he added an air of experience and wisdom to a candidate who was only in his sixth year of politics...