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...Sunday, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the Italian-born wife of the French President said Berlusconi's comment made her "pleased to have become French." Otherwise, however, the incident has predictably blown over within diplomatic circles. Berlusconi's aides said that he'd received a friendly call over the weekend from Obama, who was making the telephone rounds with world leaders, and that the Moscow comments were not mentioned. What could anyone...
...Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, the son of a truck driver (and boxer) who moved the family to Mexico City when Bolaño was still a boy. He dropped out of high school to pursue his obsession with poetry full-time. After a brief and not very successful return to Chile - he was imprisoned by Pinochet as a radical, then released when it turned out that he had gone to school with his guards - he fell in with a band of antiestablishment poets called the infrarealistas, who specialized in showing up at the readings of better...
...acknowledges the centrality of faith to culture without the author's pious participation. From his astounding breakthrough work, Midnight's Children, through his current The Enchantress of Florence, he has been obsessed with both formal and informal belief, but from the point of view of a highly-educated Muslim-born sceptic. This potentially flammable combination combusted in 1989 when Iran's then supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, sanctioned Rushdie's execution by the faithful for alleged blasphemies in his fictional exploration of Islam's origins, The Satanic Verses...
...offering a Pay Your Birth Year promotion at select hotels in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada through Dec. 30. On the second and third nights of your stay, you pay a rate equal to the last two digits of your birth year. So if you were born in 1973, you pay $73. It certainly favors the older generation, so maybe this is an excuse to treat your parents to a romantic getaway...
...Still, catering to the Japanese consumer will be a challenge. What is shiny and new here one day is often dull the next. "Japanese consumers are very fashion conscious and detail-oriented. They have high expectations on service," says Edman, who was born and raised in Tokyo before going to Sweden. She and her team are banking on the fact that H&M's relationship with Japan is already a strong one. Tokyo has even been a source of inspiration for H&M's designers, as reflected in the company's most recent designer collaboration with Rei Kawakubo's high...