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Leave it to glitzy Dubai to throw one of the most extravagant parties in living memory amid the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. And leave it to Sol Kerzner, hotelier extraordinaire, "the best saloonkeeper in the world," as his friend Frank Sinatra once dubbed him, to organize the bash...
...DUBAI Dolce & Gabbana's waitlisted crocodile men's bag ($45,695) has been ordered by Matthew McConaughey...
...heat and traffic. Inside the orphanage's dormitory, Sister Socorro G. Evidente points through a window to Pauline, a 2-year-old napping in the dark, thumb in mouth. When she was a week old, Pauline was left by her mother, who said she was going to work in Dubai. She never came back. Some mothers, Evidente says, "do not even bother to send any money for their kids ... The children grow up feeling like they're really abandoned...
...Dozens of families - some red-eyed, others laughing - hang around, trying to draw out their last moments together. "This is normal," says Amie S. Catigbe, who has just parted with her sister again. "Everybody hugging, crying." She winces. "Sad." On the tarmac, planes are ready to scatter families to Dubai, to London, to Rome, to Hong Kong. Women sit in window seats, bracing themselves for another year, or another three years. As night falls, they watch Manila spread out beneath them. The lights of their houses are on, but the lights of their homes are already gone...
...things to do in Dubai...