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Carolina S. Johnson ’04 announced last night at Cafe Gato Rojo that she would run as Green Party candidate for State Representative in Massachusetts’ 25th Middlesex District...
HONG KONG Professionals in the Central district are buying up Sony's PEG-TH55 Clié ($400), which has a digital camera, video and MP3 audio players and a voice recorder built...
When the stylish but unsuspecting Briton Ilse Crawford, 42, set out to design the popular club and hotel Soho House in New York City's trendy meat-packing district, she drew from retro archetypes and craftsmanship to stay loyal to the history of the building and the neighborhood. Wedding the kitschy and luxurious (picture 33 crystal chandeliers) to the sleek and modern (think ceramic bathtubs but in a boudoir), she hung velvet curtains in the rooms and draped the club in an Arts and Crafts palette of peacock blue, teal and green. The result was a modern playground...
...trust," says Biju Patnaik, a Bombay-based diamond-industry expert at Dutch bank ABN AMRO. The Palanpuris have also ventured over-seas, setting up small family-run polishing centers in Antwerp and Tel Aviv, and slowly elbowing into the U.S. as diamond sellers. In Manhattan's midtown diamond district, Palanpuri businessmen sitting beneath portraits of their saint, Mahavira, now run shops side by side with black-coated Hasidim from Brooklyn...
...Such stresses will make a Pan-Blue counterattack in December even harder. Taiwan's legislative contests reward discipline. Parties must allocate votes among many candidates in the same district; failure can mean losing seats despite winning the most votes. Most united these days is the DPP, which works well with its ally, a party formed by former President Lee Teng-hui, who quit the KMT in 2000 and now supports independence. The DPP expects to win over alienated voters from the KMT's bentuhua side who are disturbed by their party's histrionic reaction to the election. "The biggest beneficiary...