Word: yachting
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...riots in Malé did not appear to "disturb Gayoom's reverie" is highly partial-particularly given the fact that immediately after they happened, he appeared on national television talking about them, and visited the relatives of the prisoner who died. What's more, the gibe about a presidential yacht is a cheap one. In a country of 1,200 islands-only three of which have airports-most travel is made by boat, so it is hardly surprising that there is a presidential boat! The final quotation from the interview with the President was used completely out of context. This...
...much as 97% of his normal fee to take on a project, such as a theater production in Guangzhou. "If it's a good script," he says, "I'll do it for no money." Indeed, despite his pecuniary and professional success, life for Tsang, who doesn't own a yacht or a Ferrari or a wardrobe full of Armani, is definitely not about the bling bling. "I'm already an actor, that's flashy enough," he explains. "I don't need to wear a lot of diamonds on my watch to tell other people I'm rich and successful...
...vote. (Opposition figures abroad insist the elections?conducted by Gayoom's appointees?were rigged. Gayoom denies this.) The President airbrushes away anything that mars his picture of a peaceful paradise. To allegations of profiting from tourism, he declares that "I'm a poor man," despite the presidential yacht bobbing behind him. He says the press is free and the editors of the Internet magazine Sandhaanu?detained in early 2002 and tortured, according to Amnesty International and Reporters Sans Fronti?res?"were never really journalists." He even claims the riots were due to a spontaneous wave of mass criminality rather than...
...modern glass and stone structure—which includes 16 bedrooms, a handicapped-accessible entrance, banquet rooms, kitchen facilities and squash courts—is squeezed between the original 1894 club house designed by McKim Mead and White and the 1899 New York Yacht Club designed by Warren & Wetmore...
...SINGAPORE: Atlantis Yachts For up to 12 passengers, a 65-ft. superluxurious Italian-built yacht can cruise past the skyline, around the leafy southern islands and drop anchor for swimming and a picnic ashore. You can even take it to Malaysia for golf...