Word: cosmopolitans
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After so many years of war, Kabul, formerly a cosmopolitan capital, has become a city of grinding poverty, distrust and fear under the watchful eyes of the Taliban and its heavy-handed religious police. Residents have learned to live alongside an array of the Taliban's so-called foreign guests, including Arabs, Chechens, Kurds, Uzbeks and Pakistanis--all believed to be in Afghanistan for secret military training. In the 1980s, Washington fueled Afghan resistance to the Soviet invasion by passing billions of dollars of covert aid to mujahedin fighters. Once the Soviets pulled out, the mujahedin turned on one another...
...backing from Iran and a nod and a wink from Syria. Hezbollah, of course, has primarily waged a guerrilla war against Israel in southern Lebanon, but it has also been a suspect in terrorist attacks both inside Lebanon and abroad. But unlike Bin Laden's group - and the equally cosmopolitan Abu Nidal - Hezbollah tends to remain focus on home ground, and on lending its support and expertise to Palestinian militants in the West Bank and Gaza...
...What if China hadn't turned inward after Zheng He's exploits? The nation arguably would have been stronger, more cosmopolitan and better equipped to combat the brutal assaults of the Western powers and Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries. When outsiders with advanced technologies, big guns and missionary zeal began prying the country open, China could do little to repel the onslaught. The 21st century might well turn out to be China's, but hundreds of years were lost when the Confucians trumped the eunuch-explorers. "If the foreign expeditions had been sustained, the world would be very...
...thousands of individuals are on the journey, people like Gong Jian, a 30-year-old exporter I met over tea in the elegant Portman Ritz-Carlton hotel in Shanghai. His title might sound prosaic: manager of footwear department No. 2 for Shanghai Lansheng Corp. But he exemplifies the cosmopolitan business Elite in China's coastal cities, leading the export charge that explains why Magic Chef refrigerators and seemingly everything else on sale at the 3,500 Wal-Mart department stores in the United States say "Made in China." Each year Gong and his team churn out $13 million worth...
...CALLED TO THE BAR: Everybody is famous for something, it seems. And Toby Cecchini has the distinction of having revived the cocktail known as the Cosmopolitan. Naturally, that entitles him to a book contract. This week, PW reports that Broadway has bought the story of Cecchini's life behind the bar at New York's Odeon. They hope that the book "can make the kind of splash for bartending that Anthony Bourdain did for the restaurant kitchen in 'Kitchen Confidential...