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...French President Nicolas Sarkozy, however, has no qualms with vacationing in the U.S.: he famously flipped burgers with President Bush at the Commander in Chief's oceanfront retreat in Kennebunkport, Maine last summer (Sarkozy didn't stay with Bush but based himself in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire). And what of Sarko's "buddy," the Democratic nominee Barack Obama? He's going to spend a week in his native Hawaii come mid-August, though is still planning to hold a fund raiser during the trip. But at least Obama will have some downtime: his Republican rival John McCain hasn't even announced...
...Undiscovered Country To witness this awakening up close, I recently borrowed a wreck of a bicycle for a slow ride through the sleepy Cambodian seaside town of Kep, near the Vietnamese border. After limping along the potholed coastal road past unkempt plots of oceanfront land with crumbling colonial-era manses, I stopped to look at a billboard - the only one in sight. On it was a picture of a home that would not have looked out of place in a Denver subdivision. A young man pulled up on a motorbike next to me. "You want to buy?" he asked...
...later Guinan misappropriated $8.6 million over 42 years. They allegedly diverted St. Vincent collection money to secret slush-fund accounts while living as hedonistically as Renaissance Popes. The police report says Skehan, 79, gave a "girlfriend" $134,000, made a rare-coins purchase for $275,000 and owned an oceanfront condominium worth $455,000. It says Guinan, 63, whom Barbarito removed as St. Vincent's pastor in 2005, spent his take on expensive vacations to Las Vegas and the Bahamas; a $220,000 renovation of his parish residence; and payments to his own "paramour," the bookkeeper of his former parish...
Think of a trip to Cambodia and you think of Angkor Wat. It's not likely that you'll picture elegant seaside resorts. But that might begin to change with the opening of Knai Bang Chatt, www.knaibangchatt.com, an 11-room property that resurrects some of the oceanfront elegance characteristic of the French colonial era and popular with affluent Khmers until the outbreak of civil war. Nestled amid lush vegetation in the old resort community of Kep (or Kep-sur-Mer as it was known to the French), Knai Bang Chatt is a roughly three-hour, mostly coastal drive from Phnom...
Think of a trip to Cambodia and you think of Angkor Wat. It's not likely that you'll picture elegant seaside resorts. But that might begin to change with the opening of Knai Bang Chatt, an 11-room property that resurrects some of the oceanfront elegance characteristic of the French colonial era and popular with affluent Khmers until the outbreak of civil war. Nestled amid lush vegetation in the old resort community of Kep (or Kep-sur-Mer as it was known to the French), Knai Bang Chatt is a roughly three-hour, mostly coastal drive from Phnom Penh...