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...Queensland to be the caretaker of an Australian tropical island. And for the not exactly demanding 12 hours he's expected to work each month in Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef (key duties: snorkelling, feeding fish, blogging), he'll be put up in a three-bedroom oceanfront villa (with swimming pool just in case he tires of the sea) and be paid the princely sum of $110,000. (See TIME's 100 most influential people...
...more or less cooperated, with the U.S. helping to squash rebellions and heavily investing in the economy of its tiny neighbor. The American mafia used Havana as a conference center in 1946. Ernest Hemingway lived there for 22 years; he wrote The Old Man and the Sea at his villa just outside the capital...
...Making of a Virtual Orchestra Tilson Thomas, who made the final selection for the April 15 concert, says the project is one way to "widen everyone's conception of what classical music is," a point he'll underscore with an eclectic program including works by Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Villa-Lobos, John Cage, Tan Dun and the DJ-composer Mason Bates. He hopes the project will demonstrate how important the genre is to people of different ages, nationalities, backgrounds and professions - and that performers will learn how to use the Internet and YouTube to better market themselves, just as budding writers...
...were never known to rough it. In fact, anyone curious to see just how cushy an Indo-Chinese posting could be need only check into La Résidence Hôtel & Spa, tel: (84-054)383 7475. Located in the old capital of Hué, this classical colonial villa was built in 1930 to house the French governor of Annam (now Central Vietnam), and since its conversion into a hotel two years ago has been welcoming paying guests for under $200 a night...
Indeed, many of the people allegedly on the lists were last arrested in late 2007, when Musharraf imposed emergency rule. At 2:30 a.m., police arrived outside the hilltop villa of cricketer turned politician Imran Khan, only to find the gates bolted shut. Khan had fled hours earlier after receiving a tip-off. "We had been warned, so I left my house well in time," he told TIME by cell phone from an undisclosed location. "I'm in hiding; I'm moving from place to place. We want to make sure that all of us can make it to Islamabad...