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                      ometimes it’s in your best interest to start over, even if
                   Syou’re established and can afford to do as you please. A good
                   example of that is the new Palm Trump International Hotel &
                   Tower that’s going up in Dubai. I think most of us have heard of
                   Dubai by now, in the United Arab Emirates. Just off the coast is
                   a man-made palm-tree-shaped island, the Palm Jumeirah, that is
                   a remarkable achievement of engineering and imagination. I
                   partnered with Nakheel, the developer of over $30 billion in
                   real estate in Dubai, to build a tower on this island.
                       Nakheel, in Arabic, means palm trees, so it follows that this
                   would be their imprint in the Arabian Gulf. In 2005, we went
                   into partnership and agreed that our hotel, which will be the

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