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LONDON Lanesborough George W. Bush was scheduled to bunk at Buckingham Palace on his state visit last week, but this three-bedroom suite compares well. It costs $8,340 a night, but you get your money's worth: your own butler and a chauffeur-driven Bentley for the duration of your stay...
LONDON LANESBOROUGH George W. Bush was scheduled to bunk at Buckingham Palace on his state visit last week, but this three-bedroom suite compares well. It costs $8,340 a night, but you get your money's worth: your own butler and a chauffeur-driven Bentley for the duration of your stay. PARIS GEORGES V Just one bedroom, but it's lavishly furnished with fabric-covered walls, crystal chandeliers and original French paintings from the 18th and 19th century. The suite features a private sauna, steam and fitness room. All this for just $7,415 a night. Not grand enough...
...Hien's gloom that day was interrupted by a soft hiss. He looked up to see a woman in a dark suit, beckoning him to a coffee shop across the street. She had carefully coiffed hair and wore gold rings and necklaces. Her chauffeur-driven car was around the corner. According to Hien, she had a proposition for him. "She said she knew everyone who works in the consulate," Hien, 30, recalls. "She said, 'There's no need for you to worry anymore. Auntie will take care of everything.'" A week later, Hien found himself with a U.S. immigrant visa...
Come fashion-show time, Japanese publications feed consumers at home blow-by-blow reports of the trendy items worn by Western fashion editors. Outside the Christian Dior show, a black, chauffeur-driven Mercedes pulls up to the curb. As the door opens, a flock of Japanese photographers (mostly male) and reporters (mostly female) gathers around the sassy blonde passenger, dressed in stripes and wearing sneaker-styled stilettos. This is not Kate Moss or Gwyneth Paltrow. This is Emer Paul, fashion editor of U.K. Glamour. "Can we get your picture please?" someone asks. Before she can reply, the photographers begin snapping...
...loads of realistic, and fun, details. "The idea," says Zeff, "is to take information that people might find boring and make it as engaging as possible." To spice things up, Zeff and Gabel added small touches, like the POW/MIA sticker on McCain's racer and gold lettering on Forbes' chauffeur-driven limo. As for realism, Zeff went so far as to enhance the textures of the racetrack and infield with digital photos of his driveway and lawn. "We never cut corners. In some ways it's idealistic--in other ways it's idiotic. But it's definitely...