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Although modest in size, Knai Bang Chatt provides all the activities of a much larger resort. Among these are excursions to islands lying close off shore, boat trips with local fishermen or tours of nearby Bokor National Park. Yoga classes, meditation sessions and Khmer massage are available. There's also an expansive sea-facing infinity pool. The French cuisine (with a Khmer touch) uses fresh local seafood and produce and is superb. Menus are drawn up in consultation with guests, and meals are served on terraces or in the open-air dining pavilion. The communal areas at Knai Bang Chatt...
...indeed, the summer after I abandoned WoW, I learned much more subtle pleasures. I took a basic Spanish class. I purchased a book on drawing. I woke up at 5 a.m. and ran through Central Park. But still, I felt like I had left something behind, something old and essential, that went back long before I started playing...
...Ilham's succession, remembers translating a phone call from President Bill Clinton to his boss in 1994. "Clinton said, 'Mr President, we need to diversify the oil pipelines. We need a new route.' It was all a very strategic plan," says Guluzadeh, sipping coffee in Baku's Park Hyatt, where Western and Asian businesspeople fill the $250-a-night rooms...
...Tennis Australia, which for the moment is losing the battle to make Australia a force in world tennis again. Cooper was once among a handful of local men in the world's Top 10. At this year's Open, starting Jan. 15 on the Rebound Ace courts of Melbourne Park, the only seeded Australian in the men's draw is Lleyton Hewitt, who's also the only Australian ranked in the Top 100. Cooper is cautiously enthusiastic about two or three 14-year-old prospects, "but for some time now our players have struggled to make the move from junior...
...plays the same way," Federer has said of Nadal's ferocious left-handed topspin, "but he does that so well." The Spaniard also appears the slightly mentally stronger of the two. True, it's been on clay where he's tended to sting Federer. But in recent years Melbourne Park's Rebound Ace courts haven't played a lot faster than the red stuff - and despite noises to the contrary they're apparently playing more or less the same this year. Nadal, at 20 five years younger than Federer, went off the boil in the second half of last year...