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...make their base in the seaside town of Biarritz--as chic as Cannes but less flashy. Biarritz is blessed with wide beaches, fashionable boutiques, bustling bistros and the Hotel du Palais (011-33-559-41-64-00), originally the summer palace of Empress Eugenie, wife of France's last Emperor, Napoleon III. Rooms start at $455 a night and range to $11,000 for one of three 5,000-sq.-ft. royal suites. The Palais is among the world's last "grande dame" hotels and offers impeccable service, fine dining and a modern...
...best-selling PC game of all time. Sims Online garnered a disappointing 82,000 subscribers worldwide. Still, Probst can absorb the blows. At 52, he has seen it all. He is famous for rarely smiling and comes across more like a stern high-school principal than the emperor of electronic fun. But he has been the boss for 12 years and understands how to foster a creative environment. Like Harry Potter's Hogwarts, EA is divided into competitive teams; each works on a separate game, and each wants to outsell the others. But they also share innovations--so the realistic...
...certain way of seeing the world (with affection, wit and style), and a certain way of describing it (with unflappable wryness) moved on too. The fearless elegist of Southeast Asia had given us indelible portraits of a world that is already as far away as the last emperor...
...Those arrested include singer Juno Mak; his father Clement Mak, the chairman of CCT Telecom, which owns Mak's management company, Mellow Studio; Alex Chan, the president of Mak's record label, Universal Music Hong Kong; three staff members of local broadcaster TVB; and Albert Yeung, the founder of Emperor Entertainment Group. Several of Yeung's stars, including Eason Chan, Nicholas Tse and Joey Yung, were spotted at ICAC offices and were thought to be among the 29 other show-biz folk brought in for questioning. It appears that record companies may have paid off TVB personnel in exchange...
...fete celebrating his eight years as dean of the College Thursday, Harry R. Lewis ’68 was compared to the Frankish emperor Charlemagne as attendees enjoyed jokes at the expense of the top administrators...