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...with a $1 billion back-tax bill for 2001. The move has caused dismay at BP in London and prompted Chief Executive John Browne to schedule a trip to Moscow last week, where he met personally with Putin. Meanwhile, the Japanese tobacco company JTI, which makes Winston and Camel brands at a $400 million state-of-the-art factory it built in St. Petersburg, is embroiled in a furious court battle with authorities over a more than $80 million tax demand from 2000 that has prompted complaints from the Japanese government. And tax isn't the only weapon; this month...
Monday, April 25. “Camel(s)” 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...
...Flash Fried Calamari with Chic Peas & Tahini Mayonnaise ($10.25) along with a main course of Charcoal Duck Breast and Roasted Leg with Rhubarb Coulis & Quinoa Grains ($21.50). After your meal head downstairs to the Red Room, where hipster crowds sip cocktails. Sonsie is a classic choice, so grab your camel hair blazer or your Balenciaga bag and head over...
DIED. Morton Downey, 83, singer known as the "Irish thrush" (though he was U.S.-born) for his high, silvery tenor, who was one of radio's most popular and best-paid stars in the 1930s and '40s on The Camel Quarter Hour and The Coke Club, and later became a wealthy businessman who hobnobbed with socialites and top Democrats, notably the Kennedys; in Palm Beach...
While plenty of women are still attracted to the sensuous belly-dance mystique--diaphanous veils, belts hung with coins, finger cymbals and exotic Middle Eastern music--there's a new fan base that sees nothing unusual about executing a hip drop or camel walk to the strains of 21st century techno music as long as it's a good workout. And there are a host of new belly-dance videos with titles like Cardio Shimmy and Pure Sweat to show how it's done. "What we're doing is creating physical movement that has nothing to do with having...