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...location of the wine cellar the business of the restaurant’s staff, not its customers?—and senior staff, including co-owner Mary-Catherine Deibel, work the room throughout dinner to check on your progress and satisfaction. Clearly, they are anxious to impress and, they largely succeed. To that end, there are two different range dining options: a more informal lunch and dinner service in the second floor Monday Club Bar and a high-end dinner service Monday to Saturday in the Soiree Room, for which one must climb two flights of stairs. Neither is ideal...
...would like to see young fashion designers learn how to cut a dress, how to do a fitting before becoming full-fledged designers. Clothes made just for the runway, to impress with fantastic shows, don't achieve the same results...
...distant relative of the leaders of a Middle Eastern country is not normally enough to impress fashion big shots, who often mingle with the likes of Queen Sofia of Spain or Queen Rania of Jordan. Designers and CEOs know, and care, about Majed al-Sabah because largely through his flashy exoticism and smarts--and, perhaps, wallet--he has become one of the most prominent retailers in fashion...
...What we want to impress on the Iraqis is that cooperation on process but not on substance is not enough. Given Iraq's past record of 12 years of patchy cooperation, given the fact that everyone is getting sick and tired of this Iraq file, nothing less will be sufficient. We will say we don't think they are going to be attacked if they come clean and produce what they have. But Iraq has to understand: if they cooperate in process and not substance, then the end is near...
...against Iraq. The U.S. and Britain have not allowed the vagaries of the inspection process to delay their troop deployments, and by mid-February they plan to have as many as 250,000 soldiers stationed in the region. Blix and the UN will use their presence to impress on Iraq the importance of doing the inspectors' bidding, and Arab governments will use it to make the case for Baghdad going along with an as-yet unspecified eleventh-hour diplomatic solution. Domestic political and economic concerns, the state of uncertainty in the world economy and the prospect of mounting instability...