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...open its doors in July, and is a good example of the new kind of venue to be found - blending northern-Chinese substance with an international style more commonly found in China's worldlier south. Housed in a crumbling former state schoolhouse near the Workers' Stadium, the striking, design-driven watering hole and accompanying restaurants (Lan Na Thai and the Indian Hazara) cost $1.9 million to develop. As in Face Shanghai (there are also Face bars in Jakarta and Bangkok), eclectic pan-Asian chic is the order of the decorative day, incorporating a controlled mishmash of antiques and artworks from...
...We’re not joined by many other communities in making affordable housing a priority, and I think that means we’re always going to be swimming against the tide,” Galluccio said.Historically, Galluccio said, students at Cambridge’s universities have driven up local housing prices—especially when the schools themselves don’t provide dorms for their enrollees. Harvard is in the middle of a major development effort in the Riverside neighborhood—which will house graduate students and other Harvard affiliates. But those efforts might not mitigate...
...Russia, the Kremlin treats the media as a powerful weapon, to be purchased, coerced, or driven out. Partly spawned by the Chechen conflict, the government has been using proxies like its oil behemoth, Gazprom, to acquire media outlets for years. Examples of this include the NPV television network and Izvestia, a leading newspaper. Anna wrote for the Novaya Gazeta, which is one of the last bastions of dissent in Putin’s Russia, partly owned by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev...
...into a modern economy. For much of their 138-year history, the Tata family companies were the heart of India's insular business establishment - the last business group you'd have turned to for radical thinking, or owning anything abroad. The group's founder, J.N. Tata, was a nationalist driven by the idea of a strong, self-reliant India. He gave the country its first steel plant, first hydroelectric plant, first textile mill, first shipping line, first cement factory, first science university, even its first world-class hotel. His successors - among them J.R.D. Tata, India's first pilot - created...
...members last year,” Kharrazi says. “But there are walk-ons from last year that have made our varsity squad.”Just as Kharrazi stepped up to the challenge of stroking the varsity eight, she anticipates that her teammates will be similarly driven, as new members to the varsity squad this year are in search of the national championship that slipped away from Kharrazi and Radcliffe a season ago.“These previous novices have the steepest learning curves,” Kharrazi says. “So we expect them...