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...Bacardi paid $2.2 billion in 2004 for Grey Goose, then a record for a single label, and why distillers are releasing new vodkas each week. Leading the field is Smirnoff, owned by Britain's Diageo, which dropped out of the Absolut bidding to buy a 50% stake in the Dutch premium vodka Ketel One for $900 million...
...breaks. But the players in the oil-producing world see things a little differently. OPEC officials, oil executives and oil-rich governments met Thursday in Paris at the International Oil Summit, to share their thoughts on the global energy crunch. Total chief executive Christophe de Margerie and Royal Dutch Shell's exploration chief Malcolm Brinded told officials from oil-rich countries that they needed more access to easily accessible oil deposits, rather than the hugely expensive deep-sea drilling or ultra-deep underground reserves on which they are increasingly relying to expand production. Expanded drilling for less accessible...
...city's oldest markets. I've been eating there since I was a kid and the menu still hasn't changed. I love the perkedel (corn fritters), rice noodles and the fried tofu. Or you could try picking something up at Het Snoephuis, an 80-year-old Dutch bakery also known by its Indonesian name Sumber Hidangan, tel: (62-22) 423 6638. The same lady has been working as a cashier there for 48 years. After lunch, head over to the Reading Lights bookstore, tel: (62-22) 203 6515, and browse through their collection of used books. You'll mostly...
...basically the same under their skin, that bigotry of any sort was wrong and that the goal was then to treat everybody as unique individuals." Ann gave her daughter, who was born in 1970, dolls of every hue: "A pretty black girl with braids, an Inuit, Sacagawea, a little Dutch boy with clogs," says Soetoro-Ng, laughing. "It was like the United Nations." (Watch a slideshow of Joe Klein's exclusive interview with Obama...
...Indonesia is an anthropologist's fantasyland. It is made up of 17,500 islands, on which 230 million people speak more than 300 languages. The archipelago's culture is colored by Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Dutch traditions. Indonesia "sucks a lot of us in," says fellow anthropologist and friend Alice Dewey. "It's delightful...