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...gilded dining room and try a champagne picnic along the Seine or a melon-and-charcuterie potluck on the Champ de Mars. Paris is full of prime public spaces with great views that make superb?and free?locations for private parties. For breathtaking backdrops, the banks of the Seine rank high. Parisienne Am?lie Nusse and 14 of her twenty-something friends threw a bachelorette's dinner?complete with tables, linen, candelabras and evening gowns?on a cobblestone quai of the Ile Saint-Louis. "We wanted something original with a superb view," she recalls. "It was a beautiful evening. We watched...
...gilded dining room and try a champagne picnic along the Seine or a melon-and-charcuterie potluck on the Champ de Mars. Paris is full of prime public spaces with great views that make superb - and free - locations for private parties. For breathtaking backdrops, the banks of the Seine rank high. Parisienne Amélie Nusse and 14 of her twenty-something friends threw a bachelorette's dinner - complete with tables, linen, candelabras and evening gowns - on a cobblestone quai of the Ile Saint-Louis. "We wanted something original with a superb view," she recalls. "It was a beautiful evening...
...dwarfing the 2002 Gross Domestic Products of such financially sluggish countries as Luxembourg, Bolivia and Cambodia.Most of us will never have so much money in our lifetimes (though for some budding entrepreneurs it’s not out of the question). In fact, in 2004, Johnny Harvard would only rank as the fourth richest person in the world, according to Forbes—right ahead of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen (20 billion), but well behind Bill Gates (48 billion). But how much is Harvard’s money really worth in everyday terms? Let FM crunch...
...active and violent elements of the insurgency now come under the sway of al-Zarqawi and his allies. A series of audiocassettes obtained by TIME provides rare insight into their mind-set. In hours of sermons and "seminars," as they are called, leaders of Attawhid wal Jihad exhort their rank and file to slaughter Iraqis cooperating with the U.S. and the interim government. On one tape, a man named Sheik Abu Anas al-Shami, one of al-Zarqawi's key commanders and a member of the organization's religious committee, preaches that any nation built on secular principles...
...would have allowed the U.S. to make far more headway in its battle against al-Qaeda, which Operation Iraqi Freedom has not only detracted from, but has also made considerably more difficult. (Rather late in the game, Kerry surrogates have begun to point out that Saddam Hussein did not rank even in the top three national security threats to the United States at the time of the invasion, but occupying Iraq has weakened U.S. ability to confront more serious challenges such the nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea, and the continued growth of al-Qaeda...