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...luxury properties in Asia, he is finally returning to the continent of his youth, with plans for a London hotel in 2009. Next stops: Paris, Frankfurt, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston. He aims to capitalize on the some 2.5 million Chinese tourists who travel abroad each year. Angelini spent a decade looking for the right London site, one that made financial sense, he says: "I don't want to go over there and make ego trips." ?By Nellie Huang/Hong Kong...
...William Wordsworth in a Ph.D. program at New York's Cornell University. Wordsworth, he says, wrote his best work during the French Revolution, a period Zhu felt reflected his own experience in Mao's China. But in 1988, Zhu's life changed forever when he joined other Chinese studying abroad on a special tour of his home country, organized by the communist government. He met farmers and fishermen, visited the new Volkswagen factory in Shanghai and realized for the first time how rapidly China was changing under the economy's new market reforms. "There was a tremendous amount of tension...
...luxury properties in Asia, he is finally returning to the continent of his youth, with plans for a London hotel in 2009. Next stops: Paris, Frankfurt, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston. He aims to capitalize on the some 2.5 million Chinese tourists who travel abroad each year. Angelini spent a decade looking for the right London site, one that made financial sense, he says: "I don't want to go over there and make ego trips." --By Nellie Huang/Hong Kong
Everywhere the women were seen last week--in hotels, taxis, corridors of power--Americans applauded their stand against the I.R.A., whose stature at home and abroad has plummeted in the face of the McCartneys' campaign to have Robert's killers arrested. By breaking the code of silence in Northern Ireland that has long surrounded crimes committed by I.R.A. members, the family has galvanized public opinion against the I.R.A., which for the past 35 years has claimed to be defending the Catholics of Northern Ireland from Protestant gunmen. According to a recent poll, nearly half the supporters of Sinn Fein...
...stylishly plump court lady wears an eclectic silk outfit, remarkably well preserved. The show comes at a fitting time. Today, inhabitants of the places that held these treasures tend to look back at the culture of their forbears as monolithic, and only now beset by tainting influences from abroad. But their ancestors knew differently. They managed their confusing times with grace and curiosity?and wandering among the pieces of what they left behind is a rare pleasure...