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...dhonis tethered in the harbor, and just beyond the boats, a row of multistory buildings that seem to be floating like a mirage. Exactly where, I find myself wondering, does the sea end and the land begin? For Malé--with its crowded shopping streets, its lively fish market, its gold-domed Friday mosque--might just as well have been built on a lily pad, so low does it ride in the water...
...circle around a giant radio and are joining together in a chorus of banshee wails. And all about, twirling, swirling, waving their hands in the air Al Jolson-style or vaulting on top of one another's shoulders are girls with turquoise streaks in their tresses, girls with gold stars stuck on their cheeks, girls with tiger tails pinned to their backs...
...boomers spend on remodeling is devoted to aging-in-place modifications. And with the graying of the nation's population, the demand for universal design "isn't even a trend, it's a necessity," says Melanie Hinton, formerly of NAHB. "It's not going away like avocado and harvest-gold appliances." --By Elizabeth Pope
...reaching for the ultimate insult, the way conservatives use Michael Moore. When the New York Times reviewed Michael Crichton's new novel recently, critic Bruce Barcott sneered that it "resembles one of those Ann Coulter 'Liberals Are Stupid' jobs." (After reading that, Coulter e-mailed me: "I AM THE GOLD STANDARD FOR LIBERAL BILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!") Vanity Fair's Wolcott has called Coulter "the Paris Hilton of postmodern politics"; TIME's own Andrew Sullivan has called her a "huckster of ideological hate" on his blog...
...with gold-mining magnate Patrice Motsepe, 43, whose wealth South African newspapers put at more than $500 million, and banking and media tycoon Saki Macozoma, 47--form a quartet of rich, well-connected black businessmen who symbolize South Africa's new corporate élite. Although they work separately, Macozoma, Motsepe, Ramaphosa and Sexwale have been dubbed the Fabulous Four for their growing power and wealth, and between them, they have more than $1 billion worth of interests in some of South Africa's largest companies, from mining heavyweights Harmony Gold and Gold Fields to life insurer Sanlam and Alexander Forbes...