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...sumptuous villa with a private pool pretty much fits your definition of a luxury holiday, you clearly haven't lived - or been to the Banyan Tree Phuket. The five-star Thai resort offers 22 villas that come not with one pool each...
...global reach of European, and particularly English, soccer has attracted two types of investors - entrepreneurs such as the Americans Malcolm Glazer (who owns Manchester United), Tom Hicks and George Gillet (who jointly own Liverpool) and Randy Lerner (Aston Villa); and billionaire prestige investors such as the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who has invested more than $1 billion in Chelsea, and former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who last year acquired Manchester City. Chelsea, with its 42,000-seat stadium, might be considered an underperforming asset from a strictly business point of view; its revenues in the years since Abramovich took...
...Visitors are welcome at Jari Menari. Fully trained therapists offer four kinds of massage - starting at a bargain $15.90 - and there are massage-and-meal packages (one, the Tuesday Supper Club, features a 90-minute massage followed by dinner at Stein's villa for $100). There is also a daylong class for visitors that includes tuition, some yoga, lunch and a 90-minute knead at the end of the day - all for $170. For more information, see www.jarimenari.com...
...have absolutely no sense of guilt, no reproach whatever to myself.'' With that, the former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude (''Baby Doc'') Duvalier, 35, insisted last week in an ABC interview from his rented villa on the French Riviera that he could not be blamed for the plight of his country. But back home in Baby Doc's impoverished Caribbean nation, the three-man ruling National Council of Government, led by Lieut. General Henri Namphy, 53, seemed to be having a hard time holding the country together. The latest troubles began last month when the Information Ministry hired a sports reporter...
...Spain is everything you want in a champion. From goalkeeper Iker Casillas to strikers Torres and David Villa, Spain was superb in every area of the pitch, a paragon of possession, of knife-edge passing, and, for once, capable of imposing its style on everyone. The notable exception was the quarterfinal match with Italy, but that, too, marked this Spanish team as special - locked into a defensive mud-wrestling match, Spain resisted its historical urge to attack at any cost, even at the risk of committing the cardinal sin for a Spanish footballer: being boring. In its semifinal against Russia...