Word: hariri
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...Hariri plunked down half a million dollars two years ago to join Distinctive Retreats, one of a growing number of destination clubs that offer members plush vacation homes for up to 60 days a year in exotic locations around the world. But his thrill quickly turned to chill. Hariri, 46, who heads a biotechnology firm based in northern New Jersey, ran into problems booking the properties he wanted and says he was disappointed with the quality of the homes. "I felt I was being overpromised and undersold," says Hariri, who quit the club just months later...
...lost. As is standard for destination clubs, Distinctive Retreats, based in Westport, Conn., refunded most of Hariri's money (80% is typical) when he resigned. Since then, "we have worked out the kinks," says Rob McGrath, CEO of Tanner & Haley Resorts, owner of the club, which has begun leasing properties to meet demand in popular destinations like Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and Kiawah Island...
...confrontations with the West. The failure of the police-state Damascus regime to prevent the siege of the Danish embassy there is being viewed as a form of retaliation for Western isolation of Syria over its alleged involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri...
...Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik, who has worked on research projects with Velasco, said that his colleague would be a great asset to the Chilean government...
...told he was on a hit list; in Beirut. The latest in a series of attacks on anti-Syrian leaders in Lebanon, the bombing occurred hours before an interim U.N. report reinforced the widely held suspicion that Syria was behind the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in February. In his last column as editor of the respected daily An Nahar, the dapper, optimistic Tueni wrote that Lebanon "never was and never will be part of Syria...