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...make athletes talk like robots. With owner George Steinbrenner fanning the flames, the Yankees butted heads in the ugliest, most public manner imaginable, then pulled it together to triumph over the hated Red Sox in a one-day tie-breaker play-off that remains one of the most beautiful, jewel-like ball games ever played. Kahn's glittering group portrait paints the Yanks as both goats and heroes, and they are vividly, engagingly, enragingly human in both roles. Kahn is the author of The Boys of Summer--which Sports Illustrated named last year as the second greatest sports book...
...codex comes from a family of documents from the same town,” Seiferle-Valencia said. “This is the largest, the most heavily illustrated and one of the most complex. It’s the jewel of the group...
...difficult, because there are only a few craftsmen and -women who are familiar with the different techniques. But it was marvelous to see them come to life." Designed by Josef Kornh?usel in the 1820s according to an elaborate French classicist style unique to Central Europe, the rooms feature jewel-colored silk wall coverings specially made by the prestigious Venetian textile manufacturer Lorenzo Rubelli from original patterns found in the state archives in Budapest; intarsia floors by Joseph Danhauser incorporating eight different kinds of wood; charming Angelika Kaufmann medallions released from decades of dust and grime; and, everywhere, sparkling chandeliers copied...
...Franco Dragone. In exchange for five shows a week, 40 weeks a year, Dion will get a reported $100 million plus 50% of the profits. She will also have the Colosseum, a brand-new, $95 million, 4,000-seat theater, at her disposal. In return, Caesars Palace, the faded jewel of the Las Vegas Strip, gets some much needed buzz and thousands of nightly guests willing to fork over anywhere from $87.50 to $200 at the box office. "Celine will bring up to a million people a year to the property," says Mark Juliano, president of Caesars Palace. "Because...
...legendary art deco, Grand Hotel ambience, the girls claim their corner room is “totally overlooked” in the housing lottery. The spacious suite boasts two singles for the pair and a sizeable foyer—pronounced the French way, of course. But the jewel of the suite is definitely its huge, semicircular common room with gorgeous bow windows and a wraparound window seat. “Aside from our room being so ridiculously big that Maya and I spent an hour just jumping around in it when we first moved in, I love that...