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...Visitors will pass through a lobby covered by a 9-m-high glass dome - enabling natural daylight to flood inside - before encountering an environment with enough untrammeled opulence to embarrass a Saudi prince. Travertine stone has been used throughout the building, underscoring a design palette of soaring columns, heavy silk, walnut-backed banquettes and granite urns. Guest rooms come with all mod cons expected by the cashed-up jet-setter, and bathrooms are the same generous size as the bedrooms - a lovely touch for those who like spacious expanse for their ablutions. In the evenings, the Park bar beckons with...
...YORK Mandarin Oriental For $12,000 a night, you can enjoy a panoramic view of Central Park and the New York City skyline at this 5-star hotel, which opened two weeks ago. Luxuries include silk-padded walls, hand-crafted oriental rugs, onyx bathrooms and a top-of-the-line entertainment system with a room all to itself...
...boom that resulted from China's more recent forays into international trade. Seafood is plentiful at the cafés strung along the sun-drenched beach. DUNHUANG Set amid dramatic white sand dunes in the northwestern province of Gansu, Dunhuang was once one of the main stops along the Silk Road. Nearby are some of the finest frescoes in all of China. Created between the 5th and 13th centuries A.D., these works of art, some of which show signs of Greek influence, depict everything from musical instruments to a dazzling pantheon of deities. If the caves get too stuffy, local...
...Royal Suite and get an extra bedroom and double the space. NEW YORK MANDARIN ORIENTAL For $12,000 a night, you can enjoy a panoramic view of Central Park and the New York City skyline at this 5-star hotel, which opened two weeks ago. Luxuries include silk-padded walls, hand-crafted oriental rugs, onyx bathrooms and a top-of-the-line entertainment system with a room all to itself. HONG KONG PENINSULA Designed to CIA and MI5 security specifications - which require it to be sandwiched between two floors of guest rooms - this suite is truly fit for a President...
...midst of the 1998 Lewinsky sex scandal, Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a distinguished classics professor at a small Massachusetts liberal arts college, embroils himself in a microcosm of similar scandal and tragedy. One chance comment in class provokes an accusation of racism that culminates in his resignation and the death of his wife. Based on the novel by Philip Roth, The Human Stain follows Silk through four major stages of self-identification: anger, denial, acceptance and confession. A self-made man in every sense of the word, Silk’s success in life embodies a severely warped version...