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...WHERE'S THE MONEY? Some of it, of course, pays for the sumptuous Iraqi palaces that Saddam collects, 20 of them in the Baghdad area alone. But a Kuwaiti-financed investigation conducted after the Gulf War determined that Iraq had about $10 billion in bank accounts and other investments around the world, nearly all of it well hidden. One that remains in the open involves a long-held 8.4% share in Hachette, a French media group that publishes such well-known titles as Elle and Woman's Day. In response to questions about Iraq's stockholding, a Hachette owner...
According to Li Edelkoort, a trend watcher based in Paris who produces the sumptuous periodical Bloom ("the only trend magazine for flowers and plants"), there is currently a vogue for combining flowers of dissonant colors and textures. "Florists are crossing borders, mixing food and flowers, savage and romantic, dead wood and spring flowers, and eventually I think hardware and natural things," she says...
...century fortress topped by a dome that Marco Polo called "a jewel of white marble." The palace stands in a landscaped garden heavy with jasmine, frangipani and bougainvillaea. Formal water gardens enclose regal cupolas and elegant archways. Inside the fortress, a black-and-white-tiled courtyard hints at a sumptuous past. In 1623, the palace served as a refuge for the young Shah Jahan, future Mughal Emperor, after he revolted against his father. Legend has it that the galaxy of semiprecious stones?rubies, onyx, jasper and jade?laid into its marble interior so impressed the prince that he later copied...
...wave machine, while a female doctor and a pretty nurse swam behind. Kim has been reported to have three wives but maintains a reputation for womanizing. In a recent tell-all book, Russian security agent Konstantin Pulikovsky, who accompanied Kim on a 2001 train trip to Moscow, describes the sumptuous onboard feasts served Kim, the leader of a hungry nation. The train was well stocked with French wines and once with fresh rock lobsters. Kim was serenaded by four comely women dressed as conductors...
...Sergei Dontsov) through 33 rooms of the State Hermitage Museum in an attempt both to give us a tour of the St. Petersburg palace's artistic treasures and to encapsulate three centuries of Russian history, of the Czars and commoners who lived, worked, danced, suffered and died in those sumptuous rooms and labyrinthine corridors--but because Alexander Sokurov is as much an artist and storyteller as he is a magician-technician, viewers can forget the absurd degree of difficulty in the logistical challenge of keeping nearly a thousand extras and dozens of crew members out of the way of Tilman...