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...years to acquire the plot, but for the group's founder, Indonesian Adrian Zecha, it was love at first sight. "I still remember my arrival, after a long, long journey from Hong Kong," he says. "It was late afternoon, and in the fading sunlight the snow-capped top of Grand Teton looked like molten gold." Floor-to-ceiling window walls ensure guests also enjoy this glittering view. Perched on a butte in Teton Valley and set among the sprawling acres of Spring Creek Ranch, the hotel stands apart from other five-star resorts clustered in the nearby ski village...
...Ducasse, the first chef ever to win three Michelin stars for two restaurants simultaneously, followed an avenue of cypress and Tuscan pines through vineyards and olive groves and found, at the end of it, a chunky 19th century palazzo built as a hunting lodge for Leopold II, the last Grand Duke of Tuscany. In partnership with Vittorio Moretti, a building magnate and wine producer, the Frenchman transformed the ducal folly into a resort, adding an extension, a spa, tennis courts and a golf course, and refashioning an old granary to house the Trattoria. Now bulldozers are flattening a patch...
...Iran Factor In his column on Iran's role in the Middle East conflict [July 24], Joe Klein wove speculation and conjecture into a grand theory that it is all George W. Bush's fault. We are at war with a fanatic totalitarian movement, the aim of which is nothing less than the destruction of the West. Yes, Bush might have made many mistakes, but does Klein really believe that without Bush in office, Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would act more rationally? Thomas A. Edelman Santa Monica, California...
...often that one is confronted with mortality in such stark terms. I recently lost my father and then became a grandfather within a month of his passing. Time is so fleeting and so precious. I pray Kinsley has a speedy recovery. Joseph Bichler Grand Rapids, Michigan...
...book, a trinket he'd found rummaging in an antique shop-would catch his magpie eye and remind him of someone; days later it would arrive with a letter in his bold flowing hand. He would spend hours covered in clay and oxide dust making ceramic tiles, assembling grand mosaics destined for a friend's winery wall...