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...Jean-Louis is a detail freak who leaves nothing to chance. "I'm not much on management, but I'm a positive nut about marketing," he says. "I'll happily leave management to the individuals who run each place, but marketing is something else again." The Costes empire's crown jewel is the Hôtel Costes, which the brothers bought in the early 1990s from Hilton Group for a reported $25 million, but by the time it opened in 1995, decorator Jacques Garcia had spent so much on leopard-skin prints and ferns that the Costes were rumored...
...with Saudi critics in the U.S. The Saudis demanded that the material be released to make it clear that, as Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal put it, "We have nothing to hide." Sources tell TIME that around the time Bush decided to withhold the 28 pages, he telephoned Crown Prince Abdullah and had a cordial chat with the de facto Saudi ruler. Bush brushed aside the controversy and, wanting the two countries to move forward, told Abdullah he would send advisers to discuss the purported financial networks. Abdullah received Bush's envoys on Aug. 5 in his As-Salaam palace...
Long the destination of college kids on spring-break benders and retirees seeking warmer climes, Broward County, Florida, is positioning itself to attract a new demographic: international cricketers. The county plans to invest about $30 million in a 100-acre park in the city of Lauderhill, the crown jewel of which will be the nation's first professional-grade cricket grounds. The United States of America Cricket Association says that about a third of its 10,000 members live in South Florida. Credit the area's large, cricket-loving Caribbean population. But the stadium plan goes well beyond recreational play...
...King. Last August, once Tyson had all the belts, King threw a coronation for history's youngest heavyweight champion. The melancholy scene recalled King Kong crusted with what the promoter called "baubles, rubies and fabulous other doodads." Beholding the dull eyes and meek surprise under [Tyson's] lopsided crown and chinchilla cloak, King said he was reminded "of Homer's Odysseus returning to Ithaca to gather his dissembled fiefdoms." Sighs Tyson: "It's tough being the youngest anything." --TIME, June...
...believe that only a year ago Carolina Kluft, currently the world's leading heptathlete, was competing as a junior (admittedly, the world's top junior). Two weeks ago the bubbly 20-year-old Swede graduated to an even higher plane, as she accepted a special award from Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria. Kluft had been voted this year's Victoria Scholar, one of the highest honors in Swedish sports. The award panel singled out "the very un-Swedish way she has shown us that you really can have fun on the field of competition, even though there is so much...