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...night to share his latest brainstorms. In addition to the first-class luxury retail brands you would expect to find (Cartier, Chanel, Louis Vuitton), his shops will offer an array of his own private-label products. Also on display in a gallery will be selected works from the world-class art collection that was prominently featured at the Bellagio. (Wynn recently paid $8.8 million for a John Singer Sargent portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson.) While rival executives tend to mock his Renaissance-man profile, what really rankles them is his aggressive show-stealing tendencies. As Wynn's friend and fellow...
...Pacific Asia outside Japan would have been impossible. There simply weren't enough skilful players around, and the venues available to them were woefully inadequate. (The qualifier "outside Japan" is essential: the Japanese have been fascinated by Western classical music since the time of Mahler himself.) But these days, world-class orchestras and world-class halls for them to play in are cropping up throughout the region...
...doesn't mean that the European project comes to a halt. But if the E.U. wants to achieve some of its grander dreams - like having a strong say in global security policy, something France clearly favors, or a common vision on how European social values can be married to world-class economic competitiveness - then all the big countries have to march to the same drummer. And that kind of deeper union is something no constitution, no matter how finely crafted, can create...
...campaign to discourage travel to the Maldives, which depends on tourist dollars for 20% of its gross domestic product. "The whole thing was a real eye opener for Gayoom," says one Western analyst, who speculates that the President feared his legacy of transforming these poverty-stricken islands into a world-class holiday destination was under threat...
Whether walking through the Yard in her signature eye-catching coats or playing piano with world-class symphonies in cities across the globe, Zakrzewski naturally gravitates toward the spotlight...