Word: dubai
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...forgiven, upon your arrival at the Burj Al Arab hotel, if you can't believe you're in the Middle East, that forsaken corner of the world that seems doomed to endless war, terrorism and zealotry. The chauffeur of your Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph will collect you at Dubai's palm-studded airport, transport you past the shimmering skyscrapers and finally pull up to a resort that feels a lot more like Las Vegas than Arab sheikdom. Here, in an awesome, sail-shaped edifice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, obsequious staff will conduct you to one of the Burj...
...earn and spend far more money than ever. Baghdad's stores--depleted by the embargo--now have stacks of televisions, microwave ovens and Dell computers, and satellite dishes are propped on the balconies of most Baghdad apartment blocks. The roads are jammed with BMWs and Mercedes freshly imported from Dubai. In February another item banned by Saddam--the cell phone--finally hit the streets...
Forget about the gropers. Harvard girls really need to worry about kidnapping and being sold into white slavery in Dubai. At least the Lowell House-based daughter of the president needs to worry about kidnapping (and yes, Lowell is actually mentioned, though never seen), according to the new David Mamet thriller Spartan...
...looks that he showed on his Emporio Armani runway in Milan last month, Giorgio Armani has announced plans to open 10 hotels and four resorts over the next seven years in cities like London, Milan and Shanghai. By 2007, when the first property is projected to be completed in Dubai, fashionistas will be able to get the complete Armani experience by wearing their Armani outfits as they lounge around rooms and apartments appointed with ultramodern Armani Casa furniture and furnishings. (True obsessives can park their Armani-styled Mercs outside.) "We have been exploring the idea of bringing the Armani philosophy...
...link between Saddam and the 9/11 attacks. Americans have been misled. If U.S. self-protection mandates unilateral, preemptive strikes against any nation that Washington chooses, American leaders had better be right and have smarter personnel running the intelligence services. Maybe Bush should outsource the job to India. Debbie Menon Dubai...