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...auction in a luxury Mumbai hotel on Feb. 20, the IPL's eight city-based franchises each spent up to $5 million to buy the services of 76 of the world's best players. To buy the franchises themselves, an assortment of businessmen and Bollywood actors had earlier forked out a total of $700 million. "The IPL has the backing of some of the heaviest hitters in India, if not the world," says Gus Seebeck, sport-marketing manager for Australia's Network Ten, which paid more than $10 million to secure the local TV rights for the IPL from Sony...
...Along with the mystics have come opportunists. To attract curious visitors, one enterprising local hotel changed its name to Kuala Lumpur: "Lake of Mud." In the roads near Lusi, shirtless men dart in and out of traffic selling bags of roasted nuts and dried fruit. They have also installed themselves at certain busy intersections, and demand a small levy to let cars pass. At the top of a levee, the men eagerly tout CDs compiled from video footage of the disaster. "Professional best," promises one CD featuring a photo of a charred, mud-crusted corpse on its front cover. Some...
...entire group was deposited in a 47-story hotel that sits on Pyongyang's Daedong River. It is one of two hotels in Pyongyang that foreigners stay in. The other one is on a central street, with plenty of pedestrian traffic outside and even some vehicular traffic. It's possible to walk out the front door, see people and try to talk to them. Not from our hotel. It's isolated and difficult to walk to or from. And that was the point. There hadn't been this many Americans on North Korean soil since the Korean...
...colleague accidentally opened a door and found herself in a classroom; it was dimly lit and at least "15 degrees colder than the ones we're being shown," she said. The students sat huddled in winter jackets, some wearing hoods or hats. Sadder was the breakfast room at the hotel that morning, just after a complimentary - and lavish - buffet had been served to us. A friend of mine, from the orchestra's delegation, arrived after 9 a.m., when the buffet had closed. As she entered she saw a couple of the waitresses at work. They weren't clearing the mountains...
...does that memory fit with what happened this week in a luxury Mumbai hotel, where 76 of the world's best cricketers were auctioned off to eight Indian franchises? The answer is that it does...