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...opposition leaders took no comfort in Musharraf's conditional agreement to loosen his grip on the military. If the man who tried--and failed--last spring to dismiss an increasingly independent Chief Justice of the Supreme Court loses at the polls next month, critics fear a declaration of martial law could soon follow...
...middle of the Amazon. Uniqueness is something, along with quality, that luxury consumers desire universally?who doesn't covet that one-of-a-kind object, whether it be an Hermčs handbag, a Breguet watch or even a multimillion-dollar Damien Hirst skull? But luxury is also about layering comfort into our turbocharged daily lives. As Coco Chanel once said, "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it's not luxury." Nobody knows this better than the handful of dynamic women who drive the global luxury-goods business?from Jimmy Choo president Tamara Mellon, who built a $379 million business...
...been turned into cold canyons of glass and steel, alienated spaces that feel as though they will never evolve into something human. And whole neighborhoods of Beijing--communities, some of which were hundreds of years old--have been bulldozed in the name of progress. "As Beijingers pursue the comfort and efficiency of modernization," says a notice on the website of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, "tradition and history are carefully preserved." For many of the 1.5 million who have been forcibly removed from their homes--to say nothing of the historians and preservationists who, appalled, have watched...
...Salahudeen, a sophomore at the time, knew he wanted to return to Tulane that spring. “I think out of comfort and necessity I just went back to Tulane. I did not have plans to transfer elsewhere. I really just wanted to settle down and [develop] some rapport with professors and classes, to work in a lab, to get started on my thesis,” he says. “Tulane’s a great school and there was really no point to leaving for the sake of leaving. I wanted to contribute to the rebuilding...
...game of Xbox, he wouldn’t pour salt in the wound by failing to feed me or locking me out. He wouldn’t keep the windows open so I’d freeze, forcing me to go outside just to achieve a little bit of comfort. In short, he wouldn’t be like Holy Cross...