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...Priced at $25,000, the Ultimate Miami Nights package at the Mandarin Oriental Miami includes two nights in a presidential suite; champagne upon arrival, in your limo and at breakfast; a private shopping tour of Miami's hippest boutiques to pick out the evening's killer outfit; a session with a top makeup artist; a photo shoot to record you in your finery; the services and presence of a "VIP Nightlife Guide"; a 14-seat Hummer stretch limousine; and VIP admission to and preferred seating at clubs like S.E.T., Mokai and Aerobar...
...refugees abroad, and its security forces torturing and killing dissenters against President Robert Mugabe's regime, the country's opposition understandably has a few things to get off its chest. On Aug. 26, it had a rare chance. As Mugabe, 84, entered parliament to open the new legislative session, opposition members - who now form a majority and reject Mugabe's authority to call them together - broke out in whistles, shouts and song. MPs refused to stand, and a chorus of "ZANU yaora," or "ZANU is rotten," rang out around the chamber. (ZANU is the shortened acronym for Mugabe's party...
...prism through which James Carney and Michael Grunwald look at the Republican presidential nominee. Carney, our Washington bureau chief, has covered both of McCain's presidential campaigns. He first encountered McCain during the Arizona Senator's antitobacco crusade of 1997. "He basically allowed me into every meeting and strategy session he had on tobacco," he recalls. "His rule: I could stay in any meeting until someone else--another Senator, the Surgeon General, an Administration official--kicked me out. It was warts and all. There was no one remotely like him in Congress." Senior correspondent Grunwald has also spent years charting...
After a lengthy tasting session where we tried 20 wines, my drunken friends encouraged me to drink from the spit bucket. I took a whiff and instantly realized it couldn't taste as bad as the red from Cape Cod, which was the worst beverage of any kind I'd ever tasted--and I had to swallow barium for an upper-GI test. As I took a swig and swirled it around to gross out my friends, I thought it tasted like America. It was sweet, funky, simple, aggressive and not as bad as you'd been led to believe...
...Previewing the Obama campaign's fall strategy at a session hosted by TIME, Plouffe predicted Wednesday that it will turn out to be a close election in which most of the currently undecided voters won't make up their minds until after the first presidential debate. Just who exactly these voters are varies from state to state, he added, but the Obama campaign's research shows that they tend to be unhappy about the economy, are two-thirds more likely to oppose the Iraq War than support it, and are largely women. In other words, he suggested, they...