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...celebrate its centenary, Parisian jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels has designed an exquisite collection, Une Journée à Paris. The house?founded in 1906 by Alfred van Cleef, son of a diamond merchant, and his brother-in-law Charles Arpels, son of a precious-stones wholesaler?has long been a favorite of celebrities like Marlene Dietrich, Princess Grace and Uma Thurman. This new line was inspired by landmarks in the City of Light, including the Tuileries, Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower. The Etincelles minaudière, left, in white gold with onyx and diamonds, pays homage to the elegant parties held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris When It Sparkles | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...Maybe being this close to God will stop this madness," says Abu Awad, a Gaza merchant referring to fact that the Palestinian rivals are meeting in Mecca, Islam's holiest site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza Prepares for Failure | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

Saraf should know. Born in Bihar of a successful merchant family, he was the very embodiment of India's technology-fueled future, studying and later teaching science at Delhi's prestigious Indian Institute of Technology. He also spent time at Berkeley, where he met the American who is now his wife and the mother of their infant daughter. "I have an uncle who owns shops in Chandni Chowk," says Saraf, 37, from his home in San Jose, California. "When I was in high school, I lived above one of them. I actually saw some of the incidents in the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Delhi | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

...first novel published in India sank like a samosa, but The Peacock Throne is on several hot-new-books lists in the U.K. A French edition will appear next year, and a U.S. sale is imminent. "I'm now working on a fictionalized biography of my great-grandfather, a merchant from Bihar who journeyed to East Bengal and accumulated a large family and great wealth," says the indefatigable Saraf. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that the journey will be long and eventful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Delhi | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

...months until my next competition, so I’m not holding anything back,†Cusworth said. Senior Night is typically the night to hold nothing back, and at Lavietes it has produced some banner performances, most notably the Harvard single-game record 45 points captain Brady Merchant scored in 2003—against Brown, of all teams. And Saturday, of course, will be no ordinary Senior Night. Harvard, as Sullivan pointed out, will be the only school in the country this year to hold such a celebration before the end of the season. After that game...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Last Call for Cusworth | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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