Word: cosmopolitans
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This quibbling, though, misses a crucial point: just as a dollar will buy much more property in, say, Wyoming than it will in Manhattan, so too with New Haven and Cambridge. New Haven has long been considered—correctly—to be one of the most beautiful, cosmopolitan and “happening” cities on the East Coast, if not the country. Cambridge simply can’t measure...
...Century Elements tapped Chen, who grew up speaking English and is one-eighth Portuguese, because she cuts an international figure, says company vice president Vienna Wood. Corporate sponsors prefer their hired mouthpieces to be as cosmopolitan as they are recognizable. Besides, the Hong Kong market is small and getting smaller; CD sales have plunged by nearly 60% since 1996 to $96.6 million last year. Inevitably, mainland China is seen by entertainment companies as increasingly important, so record companies want artists with cross-cultural appeal. It's no accident that Chen's contract-signing was announced?with great fanfare...
...City” catapulted the sweet-flavored cosmopolitan to fame. Many hipsters wanted to toast glasses of the pink liquid, and bartenders quickly took note. Professionals in the liquor industry began searching for another chic, girly drink with the same winning qualities, and many of these searches ended with the apple martini. Apple have always been ideal for fall festivities, and many party-goers have adopted sour apple martinis as this season’s cocktail...
...time of independence it was Ivory Coast. The country's vibrant cocoa and coffee industries were built on the sweat of laborers from French-speaking Mali and Burkina Faso and Anglophone Ghana and Nigeria. Millions of new arrivals helped make Abidjan, the commercial capital, one of Africa's most cosmopolitan cities. For many years even the term refugee was considered dirty because, in the words of founding President Félix Houphou?t-Boigny, citizens of neighboring African countries should be welcomed as "brothers." Not anymore. Today Ivorian society is split along ethnic lines and teeters on the edge of civil...
Stylishly dressed and cosmopolitan, Salah Abdel Shafi, 39, sits in his brother's elaborate hotel overlooking the Gaza beach. As he describes the new political movement he is starting with other secular Palestinian intellectuals, the economist also acknowledges that he is considering ditching the whole project and resettling in Germany, where he was educated. His ambivalence is understandable, given the magnitude of the task he has set for himself. Abdel Shafi wants to cultivate moderation within a community that is brimming with bile. The aim of his movement is to create a new Palestinian agenda that will not frighten...