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...trademark performance by the man who calls himself a "harmonizer" - quiet but effective. Now Ban, a Harvard-educated diplomat who has served his country for 36 years in New Delhi, Washington and at the United Nations, may face the ultimate diplomatic challenge. After winning Thursday's most recent straw U.N. Security Council straw poll, Ban has solidified his status as the front-runner in the race to replace Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who is required to step down after completing his second term in the job at the end of 2006. If Ban wins - a big if, given the unpredictable...
...Since they began to be announced last Wednesday, satisfaction over the verdicts has been tempered by frustration over the delay in delivering them. "It's a sign of complete failure that it's taken so long," says Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management, a New Delhi-based security think tank. While the trial was carried out by a special terrorism court meant to sidestep India's notoriously clogged judicial system, it still took more than a decade to plow through 26,000 pages of evidence and testimony from 600 witnesses. In the meantime, 12 defendants have...
...contamination, it would have targeted the boards supplying drinking water to billions of people rather than raising its voice against the two soda companies. The fact that Kerala's government promptly banned both colas suggests that what's at stake is more about politics than pesticides. Jagmohan Manchanda New Delhi...
...biggest luxury dealmakers. Although Mafatlal could easily afford to scoop up gowns by the gross, she wasn't shopping for herself. She was on a fact-finding mission as a prelude to opening the first Valentino store in India, in partnership with Valentino Fashion Group SpA, in New Delhi's five-star Shangri-La hotel. Valentino is the first of several Western designers introduced into India by MLP (Mafatlal Luxury Private), the company Mafatlal heads...
Mafatlal lives most of the year in Bombay, so why is her first retail site in New Delhi? "Bombay has Bollywood, it has glamour, but northern India is more flamboyant, and activities are centered on hotels," she explains. New Delhi's climate and seasonal changes are also better for fashion. "This is still a developing country," says Mafatlal. "What we are doing is an entirely new concept. It's not as if they can go window shopping...