Word: dapper
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Hautel Couture's boutique flagship, Dream, has followed its first property in midtown Manhattan with a sleek, glass-wrapped edifice in Bangkok (www.dreambkk.com). Its resident manager, Adi Jaya, is a dapper Balinese who trained at the sumptuous Asian chain Amanresorts, so you can expect your total experience?accommodation, service, dining?to be sublime. Inside the guest rooms, the accent is purely contemporary: white walls and leather chaises, cerulean lighting, Egyptian cotton linen tucked into platform beds, iPod nanos and 42-inch plasma TVs, while the two suites boast deep-soak baths and bars stocked with Veuve Clicquot and 42 Below...
Your guide through advanced microeconomics is Professor Edward Glaeser, who breezes through difficult and complex equations in a dapper three piece suit without breaking a sweat. He calls on–or barks at—students to create models to solve real-world problems. If you can keep up with his break-neck pace, he will change the way you see the world...
DIED. RYUTARO HASHIMOTO, 68, controversial former Prime Minister of Japan; of multiple organ failure; in Tokyo. A short-tempered politician and dapper dresser, Hashimoto achieved international fame as Trade Minister in 1995, when he feuded with Washington in an auto-sales dispute. As Prime Minister from January 1996 to July 1998, he launched financial reforms modeled on London's "Big Bang" deregulation and defused a crisis over U.S. bases in Okinawa. An expert swordsman, he quit politics last year after a scandal involving donations to his party...
...DIED. Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, controversial former Prime Minister of Japan; of multiple organ failure; in Tokyo. A short-tempered politician and dapper dresser, Hashimoto achieved international fame as Trade Minister in 1995, when he feuded with Washington in an auto-sales dispute. As Prime Minister from January 1996 to July 1998, he launched financial reforms modeled on London's "Big Bang" deregulation and defused a crisis over U.S. bases in Okinawa. An expert swordsman, he quit politics last year after a scandal involving donations to his party...
Smiling broadly and looking dapper in a powder blue shirt, pin-striped suit and bright red tie, Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn doesn't look like your typical corporate hatchet man. Back in 1999, however, Ghosn was dubbed the "samurai" and "cost killer" at Nissan Motor in Japan. As the newly appointed president, he began closing plants, slashing more than $20 billion in debt and eliminating 20,000-plus jobs to return the moribund company to profitability. Many observers--especially France's sometimes intractable unions--expected similar tough love in early February, when Ghosn unveiled his ambitious four-year plan...