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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...prince certainly. Built in Bangkok in 1908 by Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath and converted into a boutique hotel in 2003 by his granddaughter, Narisa, the Chakrabongse Villas may well be one of the Thai capital's best-kept secrets. Located on the banks of the Chao Phraya river, smack in the heart of old Bangkok, the complex consists of three villas - the Riverside Villa, the Thai House and the Garden Suite - constructed in an architecturally sympathetic style around the original residence. The villas offer exquisite views of the Temple of Dawn and are serviced by 12 staff. Guests are ferried around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prince Among Hotels | 2/2/2005 | See Source »

...photographs of relaxing western tourists, which have run in newspapers around the world, smack of gluttony, ignorance and even depraved indifference for human lives. World, and especially western, governments who have pledged billions in emergency relief cannot be satisfied by the contradictory message sent by hedonistic tourists carrying on their vacations as if nothing happened. Muslims, who constitute a large proportion of the population in much of the tsunami-affected area, cannot be comfortable at tourists’ consumption of alcohol under any circumstances, least of all when they are spending their days in a desperate search for a future...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg, | Title: Epidemic Indifference | 1/12/2005 | See Source »

...Smack Me Baby One More Time; You’re Ok, I Like...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Rejected Headlines | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

...drunken happiness, while maintaining a deathless, overconfident, holier-than-thou attitude that catalyzes his downfall. Despite his irritating tendency to say the wrong thing to just about everyone, there are elements of appealing humanity in Troy. While cringing at his painful blindness to reality, the viewer wants to smack some sense into him. Yet there is something gripping about his irate desperation and something frightening about the ease with which Troy evolves from confident and optimistic bartender to paranoid resentful tyrant...

Author: By Tony A. Onah and Deborah Pan, S | Title: Film Reviews | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

...first few quarters post merger--results easy to attain with one-time cost cutting but hard to sustain--Unisys' cumulative net income in the decade after the merger failed to break even. If you had invested $1 in Burroughs at the end of 1985, that $1--right smack in the middle of one of the greatest stock-market booms in history--would have lost nearly half its value over the subsequent decade. And while Unisys has returned to profitability in recent years, the merger failed to produce a great company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Merger Mystery | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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