Word: clubness
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...images that go hand in hand, but half a mile down a deserted road - in the middle of a tropical rainforest - lies a small patch of England's Berkshire, complete with paddocks, stables and riding trails crisscrossing the lush hills. This is the domain of the Bukit Timah Saddle Club, and it's where, on a weekend morning, the scions of Singapore's great and good trot by on their steeds...
...pressured to release more than 1,000 pages of his medical records, presumably every doctor notation of his well-being created since 2000. The unveiling took place Friday for about 20 reporters amid a spread of bagels and muffins in a back room at the Copperwynd Resort and Club in Fountain Hills, Arizona...
...console, widely expected to be an also-ran to Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation when the three machines were introduced a few years ago. The magic is in its handheld motion sensors, which let players duplicate the action of throwing a ball or swinging a club or racquet. Wii bumped up Nintendo's sales 73%, to $16 billion, last year. It is outselling rivals 3 to 1, and Fit is driving Wii: more than 2 million Fit units have been sold since the game's December launch in Japan, and its U.S. debut is expected to drive Nintendo...
When Groucho Marx famously remarked that he'd never want to join a club that would accept him as a member, he probably wasn't thinking of the elite group of recipients of France's Legion of Honor. But a comedian as sharp and profound as Marx would, no doubt, not welcome induction into club whose ranks have begun to swell with people nominated purely for their celebrity rather than any loftier merits. That list grew further, Thursday, when President Nicolas Sarkozy conferred the title on Canadian singer Céline Dion, welcoming her into the company of Alexis...
...difficult to find anyone in France who even knows who kitsch artist Jeff Koons is - much less why he's sharing a tribute with Helen Keller, Hans Blix and Jacques Cousteau. And you don't have to be a rabid (Groucho) Marxist to turn down membership in a club that includes murderous Central African Republic "Emperor" Jean-Bédel Bokassa...