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...Tale of Two Indias Your article on India's new breed of billionaires [Dec. 6] gave a good account of the country today. The media and the wealthy ?lite want to believe the real India is affluent and mainly concerned with the good things in life. But the true India consists of millions who are deprived of life's basic necessities. The country's rich have shirked their responsibility to the poor. The wealthy still find ways to avoid paying taxes, evidenced by the number of income-tax cases against well-known citizens. The affluent are also failing the country...
...Think any airline can remove all the hassle from flying? Lufthansa is trying. On Dec.1, the Frankfurt-based carrier opened the world's first exclusive terminal for first-class and high-mileage travelers. Lufthansa's ?lite fliers are met at the entrance of a sleek gray sandstone-and-glass terminal in Frankfurt Airport by a personal assistant who handles all of air travel's mundane tasks?from bag check-in to seat assignments. These pampered passengers?only about 350 daily?then wait in an opulent lounge with overstuffed Italian leather chairs, a linen-tablecloth restaurant, offices and a cigar room...
...Such comforts did little for Jenkins' morale. He increasingly became despondent about his children's future. Jenkins was particularly distressed when the government enrolled the girls in Pyongyang's Foreign Language College, an ?lite institution believed to be a training ground for intelligence operatives. "I knew what they were trying to do," says Jenkins, starting to sob. "They wanted to turn them into spies. My daughters, they could pass as South Korean. There are lots of children of American G.I.s and South Korean mothers in South Korea. No one would doubt them for a second." Since he believed...
...years, the Hong Kong Jockey Club has been at the center of the city's social life. The club's private boxes and formal restaurants, scattered throughout the organization's two first-class horse-racing stadiums, are among the top local spots to be seen in, cozy venues where ?lite HKJC members schmooze over racks of lamb and roasted guinea fowl. Meanwhile, in the stands below, million-dollar thoroughbreds saunter around the paddock under the watchful gaze of the masses, who habitually turn up for meets in hopes of winning enough on a long shot to qualify to join...
...Ever find yourself pondering such burning questions as how to hire a luxury helicopter ride from Marseilles to St. Tropez or which end-of-season Ibiza parties are still hot? If so, you require the services of an ?lite website called asmallworld.net?but the Stockholm-based service is by invitation only. If you know the right people, an e-mail arrives saying "Welcome to a SmallWorld," and you're ushered into a rarefied club with 21,000 members?including supermodel Naomi Campbell, mysterious New York City financier Jeffrey Epstein and a chunk of European aristocracy?who swap jet-set travel...