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...second novel, Ong comes home. The Disinherited is a morality tale set in Manila in 2000, moving throughout Philippine society, from ?lite private sports clubs to pestilential slums. Roger Caracera is the youngest son of a sugar magnate, who has come of age in California and now lives in New York City, where he teaches writing at Columbia University. The novel begins as he returns to the Philippines to bury his estranged father: in a scene straight out of a Victorian potboiler, the will is read in the posh attorney's offices, and Caracera learns that his father has bequeathed...
...lucky, you might get some tips from "the Nose"?Galimard's master perfumer, Jacques Maurel. Part of an ?lite group of fewer than 20 top perfumers worldwide, Maurel has powers of smell that a bloodhound would envy. He says "fruity and flowery scents," are in fashion now?and it's his business to know, because all but a handful of the 100 or so fragrances launched each year are soon withdrawn from the shelves of the world's beauty stores and duty-frees...
...India's tech sector is in the grip of an extraordinary paradox. With almost all tech companies on a hiring spree, there's never been more demand for ?lite employees who have attended the right colleges or have a few years' experience at a prestigious company. Yet for hundreds of thousands of starry-eyed young men and women who are drawn to the IT sector in the hope that it will provide a way out of India's crushing unemployment problem, the promise of a high-paying job is turning out to be a mirage...
...DIED. LEONARDUS BENYAMIN (BENNY) MURDANI, 71, Indonesian general who plotted the 1975 invasion of East Timor; in Jakarta. A lifelong soldier, Murdani rose to prominence as a member of Indonesia's ?lite parachute battalion during the 1962 invasion of then Dutch-controlled West Papua. The attack on East Timor and subsequent occupation sparked a guerrilla war and led to the deaths of some 200,000 East Timorese over two decades. Jakarta withdrew its forces after a U.N. supervised referendum in 1999 in which the onetime Portuguese colony voted overwhelmingly for independence...
...solemn moment, the formal swearing in of Singapore's third Prime Minister in 39 years of independence. Some 1,400 guests?the cream of the city-state's ?lite, as well as hawkers and taxi drivers?gathered last week on the lawns of the stately colonial mansion that houses the offices of Singapore's President and Prime Minister. But despite his reputation for formality, the man taking over as Singapore's new premier, 52-year-old Lee Hsien Loong, repeatedly flashed a broad smile as he strode to the dais to take the oath of office. And that surprising grin...