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...find out what's flying out of their local high-end department stores and designer boutiques. The results are hardly scientific, but they give you a good idea of international fashion preferences. In Singapore, for example, luxury consumers don't like fur (it's too hot); in Sweden the affluent buy Pucci printed down vests for a dose of color on those long, dark winter nights. Only New Yorkers would pay $240 for a pair of jeans. And who would have thought Berliners would be into designer yoga mats? Turn the page for a look at what sells where...
...Kedia and Sthankey can thank an increasingly liberalized Indian economy for their more affluent lifestyle. For the first four decades after India gained independence from Britain in 1947, its socialist-leaning leadership, fearful of domination by foreigners, walled off its economy from global markets, using high tariffs and stiff entry barriers. An ideology favoring small cottage industries, fostered by no less a figure than Mohandas Gandhi, led the government to tie up private enterprise in a web of regulations, nicknamed the License Raj, that shifted economic power to inept bureaucrats. Foreign companies pushing their way in often found that only...
...Rogers AT&T Cup in Toronto; and Maria Sharapova, 16, who hasn't won yet but may become the best of the bunch. Impoverished Russian kids copy these heroes the way teenagers elsewhere emulate David Beckham or Shaquille O'Neill, as TV and newspaper coverage bring the triumphant, affluent and socially important new stars into virtually every Russian home. Though 40% of the Russian population "cannot afford toothpaste," according to the Moscow daily Izvestia, everyone seems to be playing or watching tennis. They read that Kournikova is now worth at least $30 million. They hear of Sharapova, risen from poverty...
...January 2002, the head of the BPD union had claimed that Byrne’s prosecution had been taken over by federal authorities because Trombly was “a white, affluent Harvard student.” In July, the U.S. Attorney’s office filed a motion to exclude evidence that Trombly had worked at a Cape Cod country club frequented by Boston Police Commissioner Paul F. Evans. Stearns denied this motion...
Mohammed Imad Khazalalrubai does not appear in any deck of cards or on any list of Iraq's most wanted. Until last week, the 16-year-old was an ordinary student in an affluent suburb of Baghdad. But it took only minutes to transform him from a bystander to American rule in Iraq to a willing recruit for the resistance movement, vowing to kill U.S. soldiers. As he and his brother Zaid drove home after collecting their family's monthly rations of flour, rice and cooking oil, they came upon a hastily established American checkpoint, part of an outer security...