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...That's a lot to ask, given the history: 2002 had been called the Bribery Games, for the million-dollar booty dangled before Olympic bigwigs by Salt Lake officials in hopes of its being picked as host. Once the financial scandals passed-bribery charges against two of the local organizers were dismissed, although the government is appealing-the security nightmare erupted. Ever since the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996, law-enforcement agencies have known they would have to reinvent Salt Lake's security. The Atlanta budget was more than doubled for Salt Lake, and after Sept...
Naipaul was no doubt delighted last month to discover the Nobel bladders temporarily empty, when the committee phoned him at his home in England to award him the million-dollar annual prize, “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.” Speculation immediately brewed over whether the citation meant to acclaim the writer’s anti-Muslim travelogues, or his novels and stories, which have dealt with colonial subjects in times of indigence, pathos and humor. Naipaul’s most recent...
...mention on this list? For $5 we'll call it even Losers PAUL STANLEY Singer's hip surgery causes KISS to cancel WTC benefit, proving that 24-in. platform boots are not a good, long-term, orthopedic solution CHRISTIE'S Auction house cheats itself by selling million-dollar violin for $48,000. Ups opening bid for Golden Girls collectible plates to $2 million BOB DYLAN Legend denied backstage entry to own show as guards don't recognize him. Finally got in by claiming to be Mick Jagger's mother...
...grown from barren desert to lurid long-haul stopover to modern metropolis. Dubai used to be famous only for funneling bleary-eyed passengers through endless duty-free malls, a drab modern-day souk experience only slightly enlivened by some sensational bargains. But now, offering beaches with year-round sunshine, million-dollar horse races (see Detour) and the world's tallest hotel (see Short Cuts), Dubai is a destination in its own right...
...battle is stoked by divisions of class, real and perceived. Jack Welch, head of the 600,000-member Blue Ribbon Coalition of motorized recreationists, calls the greens "elitist." Many of his fellow drivers see their enemies either as rich ski folk defending their million-dollar chalets along the Volvo/Chardonnay line or as REI-outfitted granola eaters who want the backcountry to themselves. The greens in turn view the ATV crowd as an emission-spewing, beer-guzzling NASCAR subset that stops to smell the flowers only after running over them...