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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Visitors have also been flocking to Dubai for its international sports events, such as the Dubai World Cup, horse racing's largest pot, and the Dubai Desert Golf Classic, which attracts top players, among them Tiger Woods. Another major attraction is the annual Dubai Shopping Festival. Its price reductions in fashion and electronics outlets temporarily turn Dubai into a mecca for the material world. Gambling may not exist here, but partying certainly does. There are no strict Islamic bans on alcohol?or on basically having fun in public?as in neighboring countries. A local edition of the listings magazine Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubai's Oasis | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

Council grants help fund hundreds of Harvard’s student groups. The Council’s Finance Committee (FiCom) never loses sight of the fact that every year students contribute $35 each through their student activities fee each to the collective pot. So when reviewing a grant application, FiCom bases its decision on both the impact the project will have on those directly participating and the impact it will have on the rest of the student body—because ultimately, both groups are paying for the project...

Author: By Teo P. Nicolais, | Title: How H Bomb Got $2,000 | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

Filmed mostly on location in Paulsboro, N.J., Jersey Girl is an amiable ode to a way of life, a life whose pleasures and tensions Smith explores with disarming honesty and humor. Having based his career thus far on sexual innuendoes and pot references, Smith has produced a surprisingly insightful movie about definitions of family and success in an ever-accelerating world. With an ending that is predictable without being formulaic, Jersey Girl should appeal to a wide spectrum of moviegoers. It’s good, clean fun—penis jokes...

Author: By Nathan Burstein and Dominique M. Elie, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: NEW IN FILM | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

...alienated almost every friend and neighbor... His own people regard him with horror. Yet through murder, terror and voodoo mysticism, Papa Doc has set himself up as 'President for life' and wields unshakable control over his tiny country ... The one paved road in Haiti ... is now in ruins, pot-holed with foot-deep craters ... The country's once flourishing tourist trade has dwindled from $5,000,000 in the 1958-59 season to less than $500,000 ... All the while, Duvalier's reign of terror continues. Shortly after coming to power, he organized his Tonton Macoute, meaning bogeymen in Creole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...tall man with stylishly unkempt hair and no beard who wore Western clothes, Zougam hardly looked like an Islamic fundamentalist. He did not appear religious. In Lavapies, a Madrid melting pot of North African, Chinese and Indian immigrants, Zougam ran a locutorio, one of the popular shops where you can make cheap phone calls abroad. The owner of another locutorio says Zougam was an expert in "liberating" phones--altering handsets sold cheaply by service providers to take prepaid SIM, or internal identity, cards. Among Zougam's customers was Yarkas. According to the November 2001 indictment against Yarkas, police tapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's The Enemy Now? | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

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