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...LOOT Two Napoleon busts, a leopard chaise, ceramic cows...
...marketing is something else again." The Costes empire's crown jewel is the Hôtel Costes, which the brothers bought in the early 1990s from Hilton Group for a reported $25 million, but by the time it opened in 1995, decorator Jacques Garcia had spent so much on leopard-skin prints and ferns that the Costes were rumored to be in serious trouble. Yet the hotel became a profit machine, churning out about €3.8 million on revenue of about €18.4 million in 1999, the last year it reported figures. The ultimate secret ingredient is stardust, which...
...Cinnamon Route," he says proudly, seated atop a coil of rope in the ship's bow as it skims across the Java Sea. "Indonesian ships sailed it thousands of years ago, bringing the spices of the islands to Africa and returning with iron, luxury goods such as ivory and leopard skins, and slaves. It was the beginning of global commerce...
...love best in the world and find out whether I was any good at it." She's so good at it that her lawyers are constantly swatting down copycats trying to cash in on Pottermania. Her legal team recently won victories against a Chinese knock-off, Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon, and a Russian novel about Tanya Grotter, an orphan with magical powers who attends a boarding school. Rowling was badly shaken when an American writer named Nancy Stouffer claimed she had stolen the word muggle and otherwise plagiarized Stouffer's work. A New York City federal...
...true that when drag means drunkenly borrowing the girl down the hall’s leopard print bra for an initiation ritual—as it often does—can be disrespectful to transgender or transsexual people. However, it can also be unbecoming of a queer theorist to suggest that trans-people are the only ones who have the right to dress outside the gender box. You don’t have to be trans to use drag to criticize traditional gender roles...