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...build it," says Sultan bin Sulayem, Kerzner's partner in the Atlantis, whose firm, Nakheel, constructed the Palm. "It's astounding," agrees Kerzner, sipping Perrier with Sultan recently in the Atlantis' lobby bar. "When I first came here, we were in the middle of the desert. You wonder how you can continue at this pace, at what point this irons out. But Dubai is still going strong...
...wonder how he felt today, when Google suddenly decided to start hanging ads on Google Finance, its financial news portal. It's already one-tenth the size of Yahoo! Finance, and growing fast...
...foreign policy may have helped to kill as many as three million people. Many more fled to India as refugees, mostly to my home city of Calcutta, dragging the already over-burdened economy to near-collapse and fostering the image of Calcutta as the city of the destitute. I wonder if Nixon would have won re-election in a landslide if all these people...
...such thing as a bad family." There is a 12-year-old girl at Boys Town now who desperately wants to see her mother, he says, the same mother who broke the girl's arm and used to hold her down and burn her with cigarettes. "Why, I wonder? But if she can see something good there, surely there is good in all families...
...talk at the Atlantic Council this week, CIA director-general Michael Hayden said Osama bin Laden is alive. I'll take his word for it. But bin Laden's strange disappearance makes one wonder what exactly happened to him. The last relatively reliable bin Laden sighting was in late 2001. A video that he apparently appeared in last year shows him with a dyed beard. More than a few Pakistani intelligence operatives who knew bin Laden scoff at the idea he would ever dye his beard. They think the tape was manipulated from old footage, and that bin Laden...