Word: xanadu
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...that rolled across Eurasia, linking the Pacific Ocean to the Blade Sea as it amassed kingdoms as loot and nations as slaves. The legacy of Genghis Khan is as terrifying as genocide and as dreadful as the plague. But this is the paradox: it is also as seductive as Xanadu and as momentous as the discovery of America...
...studies of a number of other countries are underfunded. The Department of Wonderland is struggling. There is no one to teach classes in the Narnian Language Department. And there are no visiting scholars from Xanadu...
...desperate when he called her from his Rome hideout, terrified of being alone, eager to engage in idle chat and already growing nostalgic for the life he had left behind. He had grown wistful, coming to realize that there was no returning to his Greenwich mansion and the financial Xanadu he had created...
...than Frankel. By the time police and fire fighters responded to an alarm at his arcadian Greenwich, Conn., mansion last month to discover smoldering file cabinets full of incinerating and incriminating documents--item one on his to-do list: launder money--Frankel had constructed a financial whiz kid's Xanadu, complete with 80 trading terminals, satellite dishes, a fleet of imported cars and a bevy of female retainers he had attracted by answering personal ads and trolling the Internet. In his $3 million residence and the adjacent $2.6 million house, both paid for in cash, Frankel had accumulated...
...marketing wizardry, Gates blundered in displaying the same attitude that doomed certain robber barons. As writer Ambrose Bierce once gibed of Hearst, "Nobody but God loves him, and he knows it." Likewise, Gates' Xanadu has helped transform the boyishly charming geek into the Microsoft Monster, who is being chased by torch-bearing mobs brandishing antitrust suits. Nowhere in Gates' overwired palace is there a program to inform him how to act in the nation he lives in: the U.S. of A., in which throngs cheered the heavy-metal band Motorhead when it performed Eat the Rich and where Garth Brooks...