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...turned out, his worst fears were almost realized. The focus on nature?a dramatically spotlit palm, perhaps?had started to shift: fairy lights began appearing on trees. Resorts started to charge for little extras. New employees weren't imbued with the Zecha mantra of "creative service." Since his return in October, however, Zecha?who now has full management control of Amanresorts, while the firms of two longtime friends control parent company Silverlink Holdings?has been on a mission to re-instill some of the lost passion. "The changes were less physical and more philosophical," he says. "Not everyone...
...Jung as a popular South Korean president elected on promises of pursuing reunification with the Stalinist holdout to the North. Some Bush people were even whispering a comparison to Israel's deposed prime minister Ehud Barak, suggesting that Kim was pursuing peace with undue haste. Still, while the Bush mantra on the Middle East has been (as a corrective to Clinton) "We can't want peace more than the parties themselves," on the Korean peninsula they may be in danger of finding themselves wanting peace less than the very South Korean people they're ostensibly there to protect...
...Seeing is believing" is a common mantra in Western culture, and in the artistic world, photography is, for many, the best medium to capture reality. Photographs are admissible as court evidence, and we take photographs to document events, preserve memories and visually relate to others part of our experiences...
...Gulf War coalition. And, of course, the legislators may be keen to hear what other ideas the secretary of state may have if they're to swallow a significantly softer sanctions regime. There, Powell may be in a bit of a box. While he can ritually intone the mantra of taking steps to change the regime in Baghdad, he also has to be concerned that this is a policy option that causes concern among the Arab states on whom Washington must rely to enforce the arms embargo. Powell may envisage a policy of long-term containment of Saddam, but that...
...Falun Gong is a test of the Communist Party's resolve?the group claims more than 100 of its members have perished in Chinese prisons?it's also a critical trial for Hong Kong's ability to retain its separate way of life. The guiding mantra in the former colony is "one country, two systems," but the trend, many fear, is veering more toward a single country and less toward diverging systems. Prominent Hong Kong citizens with strong ties to Beijing are issuing shrill condemnations of Falun Gong and its activities in the territory, prompting speculation that a mainland-style...