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...serves a growing list of corporate clients that pay $10,000 or more a day to learn the cultural sensitivities of far-flung regions. "Increasingly, it's about building relationships, something American businesses are just beginning to understand," says Jacqueline Whitmore, director of the Protocol School of Palm Beach, Fla., who has seen her business triple in the past three years. Faux pas often begin, etiquette experts say, with an overly familiar, laid-back style in locales where "business casual" is an oxymoron and first names are reserved for family and close friends. Polo shirts aside, the minefields are everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Etiquette Lessons | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

Strapped into a 50-lb. satin gown that took 1,000 hours and all 28 of Christian Dior's couture seamstresses to stitch, Slovenian model MELANIA KNAUSS, 34, wed real estate mogul DONALD TRUMP, 58, in a lavish affair Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla. It was a busy week of self-promotion leading up to the nuptials: Knauss showed off her mammoth wedding caparison in the February issue of Vogue, left, while her fianc?? made the rounds vaunting the new season of his reality show, The Apprentice, which he's considering turning into a Broadway musical. But when it came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Donald's Latest Merger | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

LAURA GEISEL Redondo Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 2005 | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

...morning on jan. 11, eyre Peninsula farmer Leith Holman was getting ready for a rest. After racing back from a beach fishing trip the previous afternoon when he saw smoke on the horizon, Holman had spent much of the night helping other volunteer firefighters and neighbors save two farms from a bushfire that had finally seemed under control. "They were about to crack a beer," says Holman's wife Claire. "They thought we were safe." But then the wind changed - and with it the fortunes of the rural communities and farms of the lower peninsula, a sheep and grain district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Force of Nature | 1/17/2005 | See Source »

...impatience at the American snubbing of diplomacy in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq or out of distrust of the Bush administration, but rather out of frustration with the very generally perceived arrogance summed up so succinctly by two tourists drinking and tanning on a Thai beach, turning a blind eye to the devastation and disaster that surrounds them...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg, | Title: Epidemic Indifference | 1/12/2005 | See Source »

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