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...while Reliance Industries stock dipped 2.2%. Word that something seemed amiss had by then reached the company's large group of foreign investors. The events at Reliance "have come as quite a surprise to people outside India," says Praveen Martis, an energy analyst at Wood Mackenzie, an Edinburgh-based consultant. "Now they will want to look more closely at this company...
...Victory Theater last spring) re-creates Melville's tale with just three actors, some costume changes and a few minimalist stage effects--like a swaying lamp to represent the rolling sea. A new version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and restaged this fall by Jeff Church of the Coterie Theater in Kansas City, Mo., features one prop, a cage on wheels, and four actors--including, in a startling but wonderfully apt innovation, one for Jekyll and another for Hyde...
...post advertises 15 hours' flying time on a 14-seat bombardier jet for the bargain price of $75,000. Another asks where to buy hunting apparel in Edinburgh. Anyone know the name of the maître d' at the Manhattan restaurant Downtown Cipriani? It's François, darling, says a thread of responses...
...Vinci Code tours a month - roughly half the company's business - at $133 per person. "This guy has miraculously gotten people interested in topics that academics haven't been able to for centuries," says McBreen. Brown's Midas touch stretches well beyond the Louvre. Rosslyn Chapel outside Edinburgh welcomed twice as many tourists in July as last year, and predicts its yearly numbers will increase by at least 25%. General Tours, a U.S.-based travel company, is offering an all-inclusive eight-day travel "adventure" this month in the footsteps of Robert Langdon, the book's protagonist, visiting sites...
...rate, compared to 34.5% and roughly 38.3% for Guinness's rivals in the Netherlands and Germany. That would make it difficult for Diageo to justify selling its Dublin operations. If Guinness were an acquisition target, "you would never get the price to compensate for that," says Graeme Eadie, an Edinburgh-based beverage analyst at Deutsche Bank. And even if it no longer builds houses, Guinness is still known as a generous employer, providing complete health care for families of staff, and even paying for them to pursue university degrees. The Storehouse, Guinness's hugely popular visitor center, draws legions...