Word: brashness
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...global image of Iceland over the past few years has been shaped by a generation of brash young entrepreneurs, self-styled Vikings of business, who jetted around Europe snapping up companies and finding ever new ways to get rich. Their world collapsed this fall, along with Iceland's economy. So it's fitting that another - and very different - Icelander is stepping in to take their place on the world stage. His name is Erlendur Sveinsson, and he's a gloomy, introverted and thoroughly unhappy man who dislikes the way Iceland has been modernizing. His family life is a mess, with...
...decision to go ahead with the high-gloss opening, even as hotel bookings evaporate across the world, is yet another brash statement of Dubai's ambition and confidence. "In Dubai, if you have a fantasy, you don't just fantasize about it, you 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...
...year-old Keith’s 12th studio album, “That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy,” bears all the signs of an artist aging out of what made him great. Gone for the most part are the brash, irreverent lyrics, bold build-ups, and devil-may-care hooks that characterized earlier hits like “Want to Talk About Me,” “Beer For My Horses,” and “How Do You Like Me Now.” Missing is the sense...
Richard Branson, The Brash, Blond Brit behind Virgin Everything, would have been well within his rights to title his new book My Message Is Me (with apologies to Gandhi...
...Tokyo A New Face for Japan On his fourth try for the Prime Minister's post, former Foreign Minister Taro Aso ascended to the top job on Sept. 24. A brash, freewheeling nationalist given to political gaffes (he has joked about Alzheimer's disease and said he wanted Japan to be an attractive destination for "rich Jews"), Aso, 68, cuts a sharply different figure from his dour predecessors, Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda--whose tenures were dogged, respectively, by scandal and partisan gridlock. A former Olympic sharpshooter and an avid fan of manga comics, he has stressed energizing Japan...