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Leave it to glitzy Dubai to throw one of the most extravagant parties in living memory amid the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. And leave it to Sol Kerzner, hotelier extraordinaire, "the best saloonkeeper in the world," as his friend Frank Sinatra once dubbed him, to organize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Ambition in Dubai | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

More projects are in the works. About an hour's motorbike ride down a red dirt road that trails off the coastal highway, residents of the fishing village of Angkoal have started selling their small holdings to real estate developers. One family, residents of a palm-fringed knob of land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Improbable Paradise | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

There aren't any," says the hotelier with an embarrassed laugh when I ask about the best tourist attractions in Burma's new capital. That's no surprise, really. Naypyidaw--the name translates as "Abode of Kings"--was built from scratch just three years ago on orders from the ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Naypyidaw | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

"There aren't any," says the hotelier, with an embarrassed laugh when asked about the best tourist attractions in Burma's new capital. That's no surprise, really: Naypyidaw - the name translates as "Abode of Kings" - was built from scratch just three years ago, on 1,800 square miles of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burmese Rulers' Paranoid Home | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

Arab refusal to cooperate with the Israeli authorities has some odd consequences. In a Jerusalem telephone book, for example, maps of Arab neighborhoods are blank, like unexplored parts of the Amazon in the 19th century. That's because no Arab sits on the municipal committee that chooses street names. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerusalem Divided | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

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