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...very best accommodation is found in the 180-room Al Husn-the most luxurious hotel not just on the site but in the sultanate. Lavish details are everywhere: gold leaf on the lobby ceiling, hand-tufted Indian carpets and works from some of Oman's most eminent artists. In guest rooms, taps are gold plated and pillows are filled with goose down. Should the $728-a-night rack rate prove a deterrent, choose from the four-star Al Bandar or the mid-range Al Waha. With its casual restaurants and toddler pools, the latter is aimed at young families...
CHARLES PAYNE, a financial analyst, about the CNBC business journalist who came under fire for her cozy relationships with sources after the resignation of a Citigroup executive was tied to his lavish spending, including trips with Bartiromo on the company...
...Still, about 20 of the 57 were determined to expose the sham of democracy in Qixia. They began investigating alleged corruption, assembling evidence they say proved that local money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles for the Party headmen. Shortly after, around a dozen village chiefs were savagely assaulted. Others had their homes demolished and crops destroyed...
...lovely was that she didn't think she was. Voted the "most beautiful woman of all time" by the readers of New Women last year, Audrey had no high opinion of herself, her looks, her performance skills. Perhaps she got that from her mother Ella, who could lavish or, more often, withhold love...
...1960s, American music producer Phil Spector became famous for a musical style that used multiple overdubs, lavish instrumentation and maximum reverb. Spector wanted to hit listeners with an incredibly dense, almost overwhelming collage of music. He called the effect a "wall of sound." I have no evidence for this, but I suspect the musical genius may have been struck by inspiration after visiting South Asia...