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...Herald Tribune brings the trademark savvy and precision of its news pages to this elegant website geared to the business traveler. It tells you not just the best new restaurants in Rome and what's showing in London's galleries but also whether your cell phone will work in Dubai and where to play golf in Shenzhen...
...Design Museum. Curator Donald Albrecht says it aims to explore the hotel, not just for cutting-edge architecture and interior design, but as a source of mystery and refuge in the urban wilderness. Look out for digital renderings of Jean Nouvel's Hotel Broadway in New York, and of Dubai's Burj al-Arab, the world's tallest hotel. - L.G Treasure Trove An ethereal glow emanates from a jeweled menagerie of flowers and animals ensconced inside long cabinets in a darkened room. Visitors wield flashlights handed out at the entrance to "The Jewels of JAR," a homage to the innovative...
...course. In Bombay, in any stratum, survival often means keeping up with transient gangster bosses. Local toughs enslave the poor, taking a cut on everything from beggars to brothels. The thugs owe their power to their bosses, who call themselves Bhai, or brother, and live abroad in Pakistan, Dubai, Kenya, New Jersey?far beyond the reach of Indian police. From these lavish lairs the mobsters run their empires?and, if the Shakeel tapes are to be believed, they run up hefty bills with cell-phone calls to Bollywood royalty. Few stars can escape the nagging apprehension that...
...Thirty years ago, the Mob's ties with Bollywood were mostly social. Gangsters?who, like most Indians, are film fans?would invite performers to cricket matches and lavish parties in Dubai. Stars love star treatment, and the bhais enjoyed flaunting their access to them...
...World Cup 100 m became a race too far. He did turn up in Seville though, to watch girlfriend Marion Jones, already crowned the International Association of Athletics Federation's 2002 overall women's grand prix winner, triumph in the 100 m. In Jerez the Maktoums, rulers of Dubai and world-renowned owners and breeders of race horses, celebrated an equestrian victory of a different sort when Sheik Ahmed bin Mohammed al Maktoum, son of the crown prince, Sheik Mohammed, became the family's first winning jockey. The 16-year-old prince rode his American-bred Bowman to first place...