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...butler service. Dining facilities comprise 14 restaurants - four are open now, with 10 others due to open in the coming year - and a number of plush bars and lounges. A spa and fitness center will also open by the end of 2005. One question remains: Should you arrive by yacht, helicopter or in one of the hotel's fleet of Rolls-Royce Phantoms? tel: (971) 2 690 9000; www.emiratespalace.com
...nothing did Ted Turner earn the nickname Captain Courageous in his sailing days. As skipper of the yacht Courageous, which won the 1977 America's Cup, he had a knack for snatching victory from sure defeat. In the equally competitive and treacherous world of business, the cable-TV king showed his spunk and resilience once again last week. Just as Turner admitted that his quixotic attempt to take over CBS had capsized, he announced two bold new ventures for the burgeoning Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). The Atlanta-based company (1984 revenues: $282 million) will buy the venerable MGM/UA company...
...yacht Oneida sailed up New York City's East River in early July 1893, almost no one in the country was aware that on board, President Grover Cleveland lay unconscious under general anesthetic. Cleveland's life and possibly, the future of the nation rested that day in the hands of a few surgeons. Even his pretty young wife Frances had not been informed of the President's illness...
...Pereira. Although the couple, identified as Alain Turenge, 33, and Sophie Turenge, 36, claimed to be Swiss tourists, a government spokesman in Berne said that the Turenges "do not exist" in Swiss records. Police have issued warrants for the arrest of three French-speaking men who were aboard a yacht, the Ouvea, in New Zealand waters at the time of the incident. The yacht had been chartered from the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia...
Late in the afternoon of March 1, the nurse's friend, a member of the summer crew of Morgan Partner Thomas Lament's yacht, communicated with her. They later said that she told him that since the baby had a cold she would not be able to keep an engagement with Sailor Johnsen that evening. Soon after the kidnapping Sailor Johnsen was arrested at the home of a brother in a suburb of Hartford, Conn. Much attention was directed toward Johnsen because his automobile was found to harbor an empty milk bottle, the suspicion being that the sailor might have...