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...priorities for improvement. Aspiring global execs are also getting trained in other ways, whether through online M.B.A. programs now attracting students across 24 time zones, or at the summer seminars popular among Americans at the highly regarded Institut Europeen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) business school in Fontainebleau, France. INSEAD is collaborating with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to exchange faculty and students among campuses in Fontainebleau, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Singapore. Already 39 Americans are earning M.B.A.s through INSEAD in France and Singapore...
...reminder of how people and nature once harmoniously co-existed in Florida. "My son is studying to be a biologist because of the love for wildlife he nurtured out here," says J.R. Hinsley, a plant-nursery owner whose stilt house--a furnished, air-conditioned "hunt camp" he calls the Fontainebleau--sits above alligator nests deep in the Everglades, southwest of Boca Raton, accessible only by airboat. "People can call us swamp rats and rednecks all they want," says Hinsley's neighbor Don Kirk, 59, "but folks are supporting us because most of them live on top of asphalt today...
...rents ranging from $20,000 to $35,000 a month and was sued repeatedly for moving out without paying. He blamed some of the problems on a former merchant seaman named Mohamed Sead, who he said had been impersonating him. The seaman reportedly booked 23 rooms at the Fontainebleau Hilton in Miami in Al Fayed's name and offered film roles to Jodie Foster and Brooke Shields. Dodi said in a court affidavit that "by impersonating me, Sead has caused immeasurable damage to my good name, my reputation [and] my family." But Dodi's spokesman acknowledged before his death that...
...Donatella who persuaded Versace to visit her in 1991 in her favorite new sunbathing spot, Miami Beach. On his way to Cuba with his longtime companion Antonio D'Amico, he obliged his sister with a stop at the Hotel Fontainebleau, where she was vacationing with her husband Paul Beck, a former Versace model, and the couple's two children, Allegra and Daniel. The designer hired a driver to show him around the area, and he wound up in the then not yet trendy section of South Beach. "I sat in a bar and started to look around at the people...
ATTENTION, READERS. It's time for a little game of Jeopardy!. First, for $100: this French veteran of the Napoleonic wars invented hiking and the forest trail by painting blue arrows on strategically placed trees in the unmarked wilds of the Fontainebleau woods. For $200: this mountain in Middle Europe was long believed to house the tomb of Pontius Pilate. Finally, for $300: these obscure bits of ancient trivia, and hundreds more like them, can be found in this new book by a professor of history at Columbia University...