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...dating column for the Indian edition of Cosmopolitan magazine. "Between the lot of us, we've covered advertising, marketing, p.r., the hotel industry, Bollywood, TV serials, gosh, even beauty pageants!" she says. This flood of novels has been extremely rapid. "At the time I wrote Piece of Cake, nothing had ever been written about the single working-woman experience in India," says Swati Kaushal, whose book about a young marketing exec was published in 2005. Neither Kaushal's book nor others that followed are feminist treatises, however. In fact, fictional heroines usually end up in love, if not wedlock...
...forced him to become a teetotaler, albeit an unrepentant one: "There's a little more dignity in sharing a couple of cocktails, some caviar and a good cigar on a yacht with Katherine Hepburn and Nunnally Johnson than there is in washing down your sugar-free seventy-fifth birthday cake with a can of Diet Pepsi and a SpongeBob SquarePants hat askew on your head...
...troops in Afghanistan and Iraq probably didn't surprise too many jaded citizens. But the news that Maryland State Police had entered the names and personal information of 53 peaceful left-wing activists and protesters into state and federal databases as terrorists, well that may take the cake. None of them had done or thought anything more violent than raising a placard against the war in Iraq and the death penalty. You have to wonder how many more lists like Maryland's are out there...
There's a palpable sense of urgency at the construction site, where a line of high-rises--the first batch of offices and residences--is taking form along the aquamarine waters of the Red Sea. Dozens of businesses have signed on to set up shop in KAEC (pronounced cake), and the first 1,500 housing units sold out in days. In early 2009, the first business tenants will move in; the first residents, soon thereafter. The first school is planned to open by the end of next year, which will allow families to move...
...underwear; now the store is expanding its reign overseas to Shanghai, where it has opened the first of 50 stores planned in China. The 40,000-sq.-ft. store sells everything from mens' and womens' clothing to over 1,000 lines of food including fish pies and molten chocolate cake. So if you're ever jonesing for Yorkshire pudding in Shanghai, head to West Nanjing Road...