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...Mahathir should be praised for leading a once backward nation toward first-world standards of living. He also made the developing world proud when he stood up to international financial institutions and imposed capital controls. Further, his unflinching criticism of the U.S.'s unilateral and pre-emptive policy vis-?-vis "rogue states" should stand as a warning to sycophantic countries. Still, despite Malaysia's success, one has to wonder if it might have been possible for Mahathir to achieve all that he did without resorting to strong-arm tactics, like jailing his political rival Anwar Ibrahim. If development could...
...While in New York, she invited Cowles to a t?te-?-t?te dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria Towers. In his memoirs, which have never before been made public, Cowles relates how Madame Chiang instructed him to spend whatever was necessary to get Willkie the Republican nomination...
...High on any itinerary will be the Lanes, a onetime slum now gentrified into an area of New Age shops, funky restaurants and painfully hip boutiques. Nearby Kemptown, a gay quarter, offers a similar mix but with hot pink accents. Meanwhile, gourmands will make for the award-winning Terre ? Terre, tel: (44-1273) 729051, reputed to be the best vegetarian restaurant in Britain, or the superlative French restaurant, One Paston Place, tel: (44-1273) 606960. And if you can't face catching the last train back to London, you have an array of hotels to choose from. Foremost among...
...creamy-brown gold. They were designed by creative director Solange Azagury-Partridge, who was inspired when her research team showed her a sample of the "chocolate" gold. "I had been coming up with turns of phrase using bouche (the French word for mouth)," Azagury-Partridge says. "Like l'eau ? la bouche ... mouth-watering. It's all about being edible and delicious, and that color of gold symbolized it perfectly." She turned the specially treated material into whimsical shapes, like a square of chocolate that seems to melt over the finger, and another that looks like it's been nibbled...
...with 10 new members. "There was no crying, no fighting and no hand thumping," marveled European Commission President Romano Prodi. Chirac avoided any echoes of the brusque treatment he meted out in February toward the new members from the former Warsaw Pact. He also had a 25-minute t?te-?-t?te with Tony Blair. Apart from the still touchy and inchoate issue of the E.U.'s foreign and defense policy, the two have some common ground in pushing for an end to the rotating six-month presidency of the Union, which small states want to preserve. The two also brokered...