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While Westerners may be outraged to be charged anything but local prices, Japanese are overjoyed to find costs, however inflated, are still lower than at home. Jonathan Hepfner, assistant editor of the monthly magazine Thailand Indochina Traveller, says: "Most Western tourists would be pretty angry if they were herded into specific shops and pushed to buy things. The Japanese actually demand it." Hard-bargaining nationalities may be banned, even ejected, when the Japanese arrive. Adds the Bangkok guests relations coordinator: "When it comes to cheating, scamming and overcharging, the Japanese really get creamed...
...foods other than Japanese have the advantage of appearing both diet-friendly and trendy. Hipness rather than fitness was on Jonathan Moore's mind when he conceived of Bond Street, a superchic restaurant downtown. "Nobu has great food, but it's not a happening ambiance," says the Israeli-born Moore, with a dismissive air. "There was no Japanese restaurant that was really downtown cool...
...tastes sort of like a tuna melt, but some innovations are surprisingly good. Still, at times it feels that messing with sushi - the crown jewel of Japanese cuisine - is the equivalent of tarting up the Mona Lisa in mascara and a dye job. "It may not be traditional," agrees Jonathan Moore, owner of the Bond Street eatery, "but you gotta admit...
...contender, insists that its strenuous efforts on behalf of Artemis Fowl (277 pages; $16.95), which goes on sale in the U.S. this week, have little to do, at least intentionally, with the Harry Potter phenomenon. "It's not the next Harry Potter," says Talk Miramax editor in chief Jonathan Burnham. "But the book trade has said to us, 'Well, this is great, because this year there's no new Harry Potter.' So the audience that there is for Harry Potter is hungry for adventurous, daring stories that are kind of challenging and exciting. And this is clearly what Artemis...
...Joyce C. Keck from Adams House, Ashley S. Evans, Andrew L. Lynn, Benjamin L. McKean and Sue K. Paik from Cabot House, Lauren E. Baer and Sarah E. Little from Dunster House, Adam C. Weiss from Eliot House, Doyle and Heather E. Boesch from Kirkland House, Dorothy A. Fortenberry, Jonathan A. Kelner and Esteban A. Real from Leverett House, Paven Malhotra from Lowell House, Emily Buck from Mather House, Michael Gerber, Jonathan M. Gribetz, Naamit M. Kurshan and Travis J. Schedler from Pforzheimer House, Stephen E. Sachs from Quincy House, and Ravi V. Shah and Ariel H. Simon from Winthrop...