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...round sunshine and superlatives - a "seven-star" hotel, the biggest theme park - but also its over-the-top luxury. Heck, even living like a bedouin can be a deluxe experience. Al Maha is set in the 225-sq-km Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve - 5% of the emirate's total land area - and is designed to resemble a bedouin camp. Endangered Arabian oryx (al maha in Arabic), desert foxes and gazelle meander around the grounds and, if you're lucky, quench their thirst in your own private pool. The spa and airy suites have gorgeous views of the desert, and there...
...first Supreme Court appearance since December 2004, Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 argued that the property rights of Harvey F. Robbins, the Wyoming rancher he was representing, were violated when the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) took retaliatory action against him for failing to give the government access to a road...
...journey on land proved to be the most difficult experience for Harvard’s sailing teams this weekend, as both the No. 3 co-ed squad and the No. 6 women found it difficult actually getting to their races in Maryland...
...Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). At its annual conference this past weekend, IDB officials emphasized the need to encourage entrepreneurial ambition like that of Hernandez, either through bank credit or the creation of venture-capital funds focused on the poor. Its "Opportunity for the Majority" initiative also promotes getting land and other property titles to the region's have-nots in order to draw them out of the underground and into the kind of formal economy that makes capital and credit more accessible...
...Because of the ban on discussion, draft copies of the new law have yet to be released and it remains unclear exactly how much real protection will be given to individual property rights. All land in China is, in any case, owned by the state, and individuals can only claim right to a 70-year lease on buildings - something the new law won't change...