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...from Flint, Michigan, who's usually seen in a scruffy beard and duck-hunter couture, was prowling the Riviera in a tuxedo jacket and baggy black trousers, and this time the game he was aiming at was George W. Bush. Cannes was primed for Moore's latest movie Molotov cocktail, Fahrenheit 9/11, long before it won the coveted Palme D'Or award on Saturday evening. The film's first screening, on a Monday at 8 a.m., got blanket news coverage; a dozen or so radio and TV crews circled the U.S. critics to get their early reaction. Meanwhile, Miramax Films...
...Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. The worst-case scenario, he says, is the simultaneous occurrence of higher oil prices, higher U.S. interest rates, lagging growth in Europe-plus a hard landing in China. "If you put all of these things together, that would be a cocktail that could be hard to absorb," he says, quickly adding that he sees it as a "low-probability event." But by itself, China "is not No. 1 on the list of risks to the global recovery." The world may be experimenting with China as a trading partner...
...Tokyo's youth to "wind down and enjoy a drink in religious surroundings," explains Fujioka, who is a member of the Jodo Shin sect. Like Ueno, he studied for four years to qualify for the monkhood, but now seems to have found his mission amid Vowz's barstools and cocktail shakers. There's plenty in the venue to remind him of a monastery, from a miniature butsudan shrine in the corner to Nepalese mandalas on the ceiling, the ever-present haze of incense and a powerful Bose woofer system playing the synthesizer-backed chants of Tibetan Lama Gyurme. Drinks cost...
...Andrea H. Li ’04 a la Madonna and Britney Spears, which sent men and women alike to their feet and cameras flashing. Student dance company Expressions followed suit with a contemporary choreographed performance set to NERD’s fused rock-hop, featuring women in black cocktail dresses alongside men in suspenders and newsboy hats...
...hostess, having facilitated a number of dinner parties at home in Madison, Wis. She finds that the most pressing challenge of college parties is “not having enough booze.” Although many undergraduates look forward to a post-college golden era of creative and chic cocktail events, the current Harvard scene may suggest that sophistication is still a ways...