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During weeks of speculation about how the Federal Election Commission will try to regulate political advertising on the Web, outraged bloggers at THE RIGHT COAST and other sites vowed that the feds would restrict e-commentary only "when they pry the keyboards from our cold, dead fingers." The agency released draft rules last week that leave independent bloggers largely alone. Still, a suggestion that bloggers should disclose payments from campaigns or political committees raised hackles. Blogs like CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS said they favored disclosure but the government shouldn't compel...
...Dubai, the airline and its base at the airport--which is undergoing a $4 billion expansion--are just part of a bigger plan. They fit into the "superlative" strategy of the ruling Maktoum family. The tiny emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf--once a significant trading hub--is now spending billions of dollars to become the world's high-end playground. And getting Emirates' brand known worldwide is part of that plan: last year the airline spent $150 million to buy the naming rights for a new 60,000-seat stadium for the popular London soccer team Arsenal...
Giovanni Angelini Innkeeper He once waited tables in a hotel on the Adriatic coast, but today Giovanni Angelini, 60, has a different European adventure on his mind. As CEO of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, a group of 46 luxury properties in Asia, he is finally returning to the continent of his youth, with plans for a London hotel in 2009. Next stops: Paris, Frankfurt, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston. He aims to capitalize on the some 2.5 million Chinese tourists who travel abroad each year. Angelini spent a decade looking for the right London site...
...Dubai, the airline and its base at the airport?which is undergoing a $4 billion expansion?are just part of a bigger plan. They fit into the "superlative" strategy of the ruling Maktoum family. The tiny emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf?once a significant trading hub?is now spending billions of dollars to become the world's high-end playground. And getting Emirates' brand known worldwide is part of that plan: last year the airline spent $150 million to buy the naming rights for a new 60,000-seat stadium for the popular London soccer team Arsenal...
...once waited tables in a hotel on the Adriatic coast, but today Giovanni Angelini, 60, has a different European adventure on his mind. As CEO of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, a group of 46 luxury properties in Asia, he is finally returning to the continent of his youth, with plans for a London hotel in 2009. Next stops: Paris, Frankfurt, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston. He aims to capitalize on the some 2.5 million Chinese tourists who travel abroad each year. Angelini spent a decade looking for the right London site, one that made financial...