Setting Sail: Sochi, Russia

In the third of a five-part series Tristan Rutherford, destinations expert at superyacht charter agency Y.CO, details where the super-rich will be sailing to in 2013. This month’s hotspot: Sochi, Russia Sochi was the Soviet Union’s St Tropez. Joseph Stalin built his favourite dacha in its subtropical hinterland. Yuri Gagarin sojourned on the sandy shoreline…
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Shining Happy People: The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel

Cognitive dissonance is a discomfort caused by holding conflicting cognitions (e.g., ideas, beliefs, values, emotional reactions) simultaneously. Like admiring David Cameron for his attempts to bring Etonian, bloody-good-chap decency to the pragmatic horrors of governing in a coalition, yet suspecting him of being nefariously on the side of the privileged and ancestrally elite. Tricky. Pop…
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