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...poodle or a schnauzer or a schnoodle (a cross between the two breeds) the perfect accompaniment to their modern lives. Just a couple years ago, my own miniature schnauzer, Cassius, used to be mistaken on the streets of Shanghai for a rabbit because of her extravagant ears and gray coat. No longer. Everyone in Shanghai, it seems, now knows someone who owns a xue-nai-rui, as the German breed is known in Mandarin...
...fall of Saddam, importing consumer electronics like refrigerators, washing machines and air conditioners. But his modest single-story home in the middle-class Yarmuk neighborhood still looks as it did when he inherited it from his father, an army captain. "I won't even put on a fresh coat of paint because that would arouse suspicions," he said. He drives around Baghdad in a beat-up Japanese car "even though I can afford a top-of-the-line Mercedes." Only when he's abroad does he live large, booking suites in the best hotels, buying expensive suits that he leaves...
...Asia. It's also prompting firms to buy companies they would have spurned just a few years ago. Retail--a highly competitive sector with low margins--is a case in point, says Christopher Kampe, director at Grant Thornton Corporate Finance. In the past year, Linens 'n Things, Burlington Coat Factory, Petco and the Sports Authority have all been bought...
Remele fingered a caramel cashmere coat and looked over at the footage of his February fashion show displayed on a television tucked beneath one of the club’s many Harvard seals...
...away” nor a threat to “smash his [expletive] face in” persuaded him that I did not want to “be his friend.” It ended only when I emerged, armed (rationally) with a pen, a key, and a coat hanger in order to flee past him to reception.Perhaps such unpleasant reminders of my vulnerability should be enough to make me stay at home. Any woman bold enough to stray alone from the family fold is surely fair game. She would be better off finding some nice secretarial work close...