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...rich they've lost count of all the zeroes and who dig Marie Antoinette-style extravagance, there is the Mandarin Oriental's[an error occurred while processing this directive] FANtastic Jet Set Journey, an over-the-top 10-day tour of three big U.S. cities with private jets, lavish suites and limousines. From New Year's Day through May 31, for a whopping $220,000 per couple (but hey, tax is included), luxury junkies can be waited on like royalty before the revolution at the hotel chain's outposts in Miami, New York City and Washington. www.mandarinoriental.com...
...before Ernst Lubitsch arrived in the U.S., he had helped establish the infant German cinema as a beacon of sophisticated drama and innovative technique. Kino, the top DVD label for silent films, offers a four-disc sampler of the director's early work, all from 1919 to 1921, including lavish historical dramas (Anna Boleyn), mountain films (The Wildcat, with a very feral Pola Negri) and delightful comedies. Best is The Oyster Princess, "a grotesque in four acts," in which the director sets a pinwheeling series of sight gags in motion like a vaudevillian with his spinning plates...
...Murtha is a controversial character, thanks to his ties to the 1980s Abscam affair (he was investigated but never charged) and more recently his lavish earmarking as a member of the appropriations committee. A full-blown ethics scandal would be a disaster for the Democrats as they enter their moment in the sun. And if Murtha loses, it's doubly bad for Pelosi. Not only would she have picked sides and lost, but she will have gone down fighting. Miller, for one, seems unfazed. "It's looking pretty good for Jack...
...Ford has emphasized his credentials as pro-gun, anti-tax, church-going politician to win in this conservative state, while Corker and the Republicans have sought to portray him as a rich, urbane liberal who wears fancy suits, stays in lavish hotels and has never held a real job other than being in Congress. Corker, who won an intensely fought primary over two more conservative G.O.P. rivals, has highlighted his success as a businessman in starting and developing a construction company that has earned him millions, much of which he pumped into his campaign...
...million Value of gifts, according to one estimate, at the lavish wedding of the daughter of Burmese junta leader General Than Shwe, a leaked video of which was released last week $18 million Estimate of Burma's total annual health-care budget in 2003, the latest reliable data available. The country of 53 million people is one of the poorest in the world...