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...convention, UglyCon, to be held in Los Angeles in December. "I'll bet there are toy-company boardrooms filled with Uglydoll samples and that they're scratching their heads as to why it works and why they didn't do it first," says Eric Nakamura, owner of L.A.-based Asian pop-culture store Giant Robot, where the first doll was sold. "I'm sure people have lost their jobs over...
...population of trendy, extravagant professionals like Kocabiyikoglu, Istanbul is suddenly the focus of luxury-goods purveyors looking to expand in what up to now has been a small market. Fendi has three retail doors with a fourth on the slate, Louis Vuitton is expanding its small store on the Asian side of the Bosporus next year, while Dolce & Gabbana, Dior and Prada are all actively looking for appropriate sites on the European side...
...Vogue, which has spectacular water views and is named after the one fashion glossy that isn't yet in the Turkish market ("They want to come, but we have the name," says Buyukugur). The pair recently entered into the hotel market with Ajia, a bijoux boutique hotel on the Asian side, to which the speediest access is by boat...
...grilling exhibitors from Europe's traditional powers, such as France and Germany, but also eastern upstarts such as Hungary and Lithuania. The number of European universities offering courses in English has risen dramatically over the past few years, making them more attractive to Indian students. "The Europeans are welcoming Asian students," says Nidhi Mahajan who was manning the stand for the Graduate School of Automotive, Aeronautical, Space Craft and Marine Craft Engineering, based in Paris. "They've destroyed that barrier of language and people are finding the U.S. is maybe a little monotonous, so they're looking for something different...
...Scalia pointed to the problem in both districts of dividing students into only two categories, with no distinction made for Latino, Asian-American or multi-racial students. "What if a particular child's grandfather was white?" he asked. "There are many people of mixed blood." When told parents are allowed to self-identify with a particular racial group, Scalia said that that "seems like a big loophole...