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...Mademoiselle Jean, tel: (32-2) 513 5069, www.mademoisellejean.com, where, amid black padded walls studded with pink ribbons, designer Aurore Jean makes sexy, one-off 1950s-inspired pieces. Ribbons, bows and lingerie feature in her skirts, catsuits and baby-doll tops, and handmade corsets are her speciality...
...escape the Israeli onslaught in the south and in southern Beirut. Volunteers have had to take matters into their own hands. "We are welcoming thousands of refugees," said Salim Abu Ismail, the president of the civic center in Baaqline, the largest town in the Chouf, an oasis of calm amid the escalating violence. But the town is struggling to keep up. "Fruits and vegetables are available from the farms but some supplies have to come from Beirut. This will be a big problem...
...designers Sofie D'Hoore and Cathy Pill, while the shops next door have been transformed into boutiques that sell the offbeat fashion of young designers, many of them graduates of the Brussels art school, La Cambre. At No. 100 is Mademoiselle Jean, tel: (32-2) 513 5069, www.mademoisellejean.com, where, amid black padded walls studded with pink ribbons, designer Aurore Jean makes sexy, one-off 1950s-inspired pieces. Ribbons, bows and lingerie feature in her skirts, catsuits and baby-doll tops, and handmade corsets are her speciality. Next door at Y-dress?, tel: (32-2) 502 6981, ydress.com, Swedish-bred Aleksandra...
...going to be like Sarajevo?" an American television interviewer asked me. There were predictions that the stock market would nosedive, but it actually gained 3% the very next day. This was history repeating itself; after a bombing in 1993, when the exchange building itself was attacked, traders stood amid the ruins and used the old manual system, sending the Sensex shooting up 10% in two days. Just to show...
...Hours later, Shah was able to account for all his colleagues but one. Then the search of local hospitals began. Finally, just before dawn, he and his friends found the man they were looking for amid the pandemonium at the Sion Hospital morgue. Shah had to identify the body. "It was horrible," he says. "I can't describe it." Then the widow had to be called, and a funeral arranged. If Shah knew the steps, it's because he had seen it all before. He lost five colleagues in 1993, when terrorists blew up the Bombay stock exchange...