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Saudi Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi built the yacht for more than $100 million, but the hyper-rich Sultan of Brunei took possession of the boat earlier this year, when Khashoggi defaulted on a personal loan. The new owner will dock the craft from time to time near his casinos in Atlantic City. It will cost $2 million or so to dredge a deeper channel to accommodate it, but who's counting...
...food growers, the past two decades must have seemed like some nightmarish Nutrition Court. One after another, popular foods from butter to beef have been hauled into the dock and charged with crimes against health and humanity. "Guilty," the jury of popular and scientific opinion has snapped each time. The punishment: a sentence to suffer lower sales and market shares. Bang of gavel. But these days, food manufacturers have wised up. They are now mounting aggressive advertising campaigns to press claims that their products have got a bum rap and to extoll the benefits of the genuine article. Enter...
...Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. EDT, traces the couple's unfinished struggle against institutionalized racism in South Africa. It is also the melancholy love story of Winnie, now 50, and Nelson, 69, who wed during a break in his trial for treason and honeymooned while he was in the dock. Because of his political activities and 25-year-long imprisonment, the pair have spent only a few months of their married life together...
Designers who favor aluminum hulls maintain they last indefinitely, hold three times as much fuel as fiber glass-hulled boats and are 15% faster. The American buyer wants a boat that looks "like it's going 20 knots when it's sitting at the dock," explains Denison. Perhaps the most stunning example is the Bannenberg-designed, 110-ft. Never Say Never, owned by Gary Blonder, a flamboyant entrepreneur who made his fortune in used auto parts. This rocket ship skims the waves at 34 knots full throttle (about 39 m.p.h.) and was used as a setting on Miami Vice...
Ever since the trial of Accused Nazi War Criminal Klaus Barbie began in Lyons last May, Defense Attorney Jacques Verges had threatened to put the conscience of France in the dock. He hinted at possible revelations of French collaboration with the Nazis and of human-rights violations during the Algerian war of the 1950s. Last week Verges presented his case -- and he revealed almost nothing...