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...workers to find addicts. "You used to almost get killed in the rush of people selling out there," he says. Bampi's friends now ring contacts to organize deals, arranging to buy in cars, parks or busy shops. "It might take a little bit longer, but within half an hour you'll have something," says Bampi. When the drought temporarily starved them of a daily fix, Bampi and her friends began searching for other ways to get stoned. Bampi started using benzodiazepines, sedatives usually prescribed for insomnia and anxiety, topping up whatever heroin she could find: "I used...
Defining moment: He opened his first store--a 100,000-sq.-ft., $20 million, 24-hour emporium in Kuwait City--in 2002. He opened in Dubai the following year and in Qatar last...
Michael Kors is a pro at selling expensive clothes to very rich women. At personal appearances in department stores, he has been known to move $85,000 worth of merchandise in just one hour. But this year has been different. This year Kors says his wealthy clientele is out of control--they're spending like it's 1999. One New Yorker ordered two pairs of gold-beaded pants for $8,900 each. At a trunk show in Short Hills, N.J., Kors sold five purple mink ponchos for $7,825 each. Like many purveyors of luxury goods, Kors has seen...
Wannabe hostesses, take note: caterer to the rich and famous Serena Bass is publishing her first book, Serena, Food & Stories: Feeding Friends Every Hour of the Day (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; 210 pages), next month. Bass, whose clients include Ralph Lauren, Sarah Jessica Parker and Oscar de la Renta, provides more than 100 recipes (including Bass's favorite cheese-and-cherry blintzes), helpful tips and witty anecdotes. Now even the most anxious cook can throw a dinner party that dazzles. --BY BETSY KROLL
...ability to intercept and decode Iran's secret communications. The Iraqi, who knew Franklin's name but had never met him, was startled by the call. "How about discussing Iranian codes with a drunken American? Had anyone ever done that?" Franklin wanted to know. For nearly half an hour, Franklin quizzed him about Pentagon officials and Iranian spycraft. "That was really scary," recalls the Iraqi. "I told him, 'I don't remember anything...