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...profit for the last three months of 2006. At the end of March, Japan's capital will receive a new crown jewel: the 54-story Tokyo Midtown complex in Roppongi, which will feature another new art museum inside the city's tallest skyscraper, topped by a new Ritz-Carlton hotel. You can reserve the top suite for a mere $17,300 a night...
...Given that some people spend thousands of dollars on, say, psychiatric sessions for their dogs or a suite at the newest five-star hotel in Dubai, it might seem churlish to criticize this orgy of gluttony. But the event has raised eyebrows in a country where high-living billionaire Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was overthrown in a coup last September by a more austere clutch of generals. Led by interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, who spent time in a monastery after retiring from the military, Thailand's new leaders have called for the Buddhist-majority nation to avoid capitalist excess...
...marked contrast to the heady optimism, two years ago, of the so-called Cedar Revolution, the month-long series of street demonstrations triggered by the killing of Rafik Hariri and 22 other people in a massive Valentine's Day truck bomb explosion, which tore through Beirut's plush seafront hotel district. Hariri had been on the verge of leading an electoral campaign aimed at ending the dominance of Lebanese politics by neighboring Syria, a goal that many Lebanese believe cost him his life. "The Syrian regime killed my father," said Saad Hariri. "Bashar al-Assad gave the order...
...their stuff at the All-Star game in Las Vegas, the league will unveil what it hopes will become the next-best thing: a live, three-dimensional high-definition broadcast of it, which they will show to 3,500 viewers on a 45-foot screen at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino for the first-ever live sports event filmed...
...happened Feb. 10, as it does each year at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards, the brainy Hollywood gathering that merits about a one-minute summary at the prime-time Oscars. The event, held this year at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. and hosted by Maggie Gyllenhaal, honors the unsung heroes of show business, the men behind the men behind the movie - making gadgets that make men like Peter Jackson and George Lucas look so smart...