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...abroad at Harvard, but without the red tape—taking a leave of absence, losing student status (and thereby having to pay off loans), sorting out housing concerns—which students like myself had to go through to get there. We’re not all drunken Riviera ravers...
...policies—in the absence of sufficiently rigorous, Harvard-run study abroad options—constitute more a license for Harvard students to waste their time than anything else. And, yes, time poorly spent is time wasted—even if it’s on the Riviera...
...away at Tangalla also on the southern coast. Apart from introducing beach elephant polo, Dobbs is now planning to open a boutique yacht club because there isn't a single one between the Suez Canal and Phuket. "I now term this part of southern Sri Lanka as the Serendip Riviera. The stretch from Galle to Tangalla will in time become the best address in the Indian Ocean." Amanresorts, the ultra-chic chain run by Adrian Zecha, is moving in too. Zecha is restoring Galle's New Oriental Hotel, a 300-year-old Dutch barracks that was converted into a hotel...
...they have rotting floorboards and cracking foundations. In December a 1,110-sq-m penthouse complete with an indoor pool and a 21-inch LCD TV in the bathroom made headlines when it sold for a record $4.3 million. Just the right to tour the lavish apartment in Shimao Riviera Garden cost $600 per VIP ticket...
...that's true. But Berman has clearly done quite nicely since he began developing and managing Indian casinos more than a decade ago. Among his real estate holdings: a ranch in tony Telluride, Colo.; a house in Palm Springs, Calif.; an estate called Casa Berman Palmillia on the Mexican Riviera; a condo in Las Vegas; and a $5 million estate in Wayzata, Minn. By his account, as of September 2001, he was worth almost $69 million...