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...close friend of Barack and Michelle Obama's for nearly two decades, former Chicago Transit Board chief Valerie Jarrett has been called "the other side of Barack's brain...
...pawn of two magicians in The Prestige) wrote her master's in Catalan Identity. Before marrying businessman Doug (Chris Messina), she has come to Barcelona to spend July and August with a welcoming relative, Judy (Patricia Clarkson), and Judy's husband Mark (Kevin Dunn). Vicky has brought along her friend Cristina (current Woody muse Scarlett Johansson), who is restless emotionally and artistically. She has the impulse to be creative - she starred in and directed a 12 min. film - but not, at least so far as she can locate it, the talent...
...global economy's sweet spot. But even though China is celebrating its international coming-out party this year by hosting the Olympics, for Huang and many of her classmates, any "I'm going to inherit the earth" optimism has been shelved. "Now," she says, idly text-messaging a friend from a Shanghai coffee shop, "I sometimes wonder whether I'll be able...
...That cosmopolitan history has been maintained in the house's present rebirth as Paradise Road Tintagel Colombo, www.tintagelcolombo.com - a luxury hotel and restaurant opened in 2007 by Colombo designer and homeware retailer Udayshanth Fernando. "I'm a very close friend of Sunethra Bandaranaike," says Fernando, referring to the elder daughter, who had planned to sell off the furniture and rent the house to a foreign embassy. "I said: 'Why don't you rent it to me?' She spoke to her brother and sister and there we went...
...Olympics in Hong Kong have not gone off without incident. At the inaugural event on Aug. 9, Christina Chan, a young woman sitting in the front row of the stadium, was smothered by security staff after trying to unveil a banned Tibetan flag she and a friend had snuck past the guards. They hauled her out of the arena as some members of the crowd jeered and chanted for her to leave - her dissident act cut short before it even started. Another man wearing an anti-Olympics t-shirt was barred from even entering the venue, while a human rights...