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This time of year, the salesman goes on the road to showcase his new wares at the Venice and Toronto film festivals. He showed up last week on the Lido, a couple of hundred miles from his vacation villa on Lake Como, both to present his Iraq war comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats and to unveil his new inamorata, TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis. When the film broke down at the evening screening, Clooney serenaded the audience with a comic-opera rendition of O Sole Mio that wouldn't make Placido Domingo envious but did wow the crowd. This...
...trip came just days after a military-backed court sentenced Suu Kyi to 18 months of house arrest. The democracy advocate, who has been locked up for 14 of the past 20 years, was punished in a bizarre case in which an American swam uninvited to her lakeside villa. The verdict virtually guarantees that Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy overwhelmingly won the 1990 elections that the junta ignored, will have to sit out the nationwide polls that the regime has promised for next year...
...Webb also met with detained democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. The inspirational leader of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), Suu Kyi was sentenced to 18 months of house arrest on Tuesday after a bizarre case in which an American swam to her lakeside villa in commercial capital Rangoon. According to the junta's judiciary logic, the appearance of an uninvited guest at the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's home meant that she had contravened the terms of her previous house arrest. (Suu Kyi has been locked up for 14 years of the past two decades.) This month...
...year-old colonial buildings, plus a modern but beautifully complementary extension. Standard rooms are 710 sq. ft. (66 sq m). The smallest suites are 926 sq. ft. (86 sq m). And if neither of those will do, you can try a 2,000-sq.-ft. (186 sq m) villa or one of the sprawling 4,690-sq.-ft. (436 sq m) "manors." All accommodation comes appointed in the neutral shades so beloved of fashionable properties, and features every high-tech gizmo that the urbane traveler could require. Most rooms offer views of the South China Sea. Villas and manors come...
...rents in a Harlem building owned by a prominent real estate developer. (He has since given up one apartment that he used as an office.) In September, he admitted he had neglected to pay some taxes by failing to report $75,000 in rental income earned from a beachfront villa he owns in the Dominican Republic. ("That was a big boo-boo," he acknowledged.) His fundraising for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York has been controversial, with accusations that Rangel improperly used congressional stationery to solicit donations and sought contributions from...