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...Dixit. Even Nicole Kidman is a fan. And Beri, 30, has been named chief designer for the ready-to-wear division of Paris-based Jean-Louis Scherrer, making her the first Indian designer to gain such a position in France. An auspicious sign: Beri's mentor is renowned fashion mogul Mounir Moufarrige, who supercharged the career of designer Stella McCartney...
...mayor's apparent kingmaking powers after his endorsement helped boost Bill Simon Jr. to a surprising victory in California's Republican primary for Governor, G.O.P. leaders quietly polled voters in key states last week to gauge Giuliani's broader influence. Republicans were already aware that Giuliani helped elect media mogul Michael Bloomberg to the Big Apple's top job last fall. But last week's G.O.P. polling revealed that Giuliani is as popular nationwide among Republicans as George W. Bush. And he holds up remarkably well among the moderates and independent voters who will decide most of the close congressional...
Desirable Daughters is the tale of Tara Chatterjee, an Indian woman living in San Francisco in the late 1990s. She has divorced her billionaire tech-mogul husband and lives with her teenage son, Rabi, and her Hungarian “mistri,” Andy. Mukherjee carefully weaves among various incidents in Tara’s past and the unfolding drama of her present. Each foray into the past peels away another sari, unveiling heretofore unknown layers of meaning in Tara’s life...
...16th century, the fiery invader Babur swooped down from present-day Afghanistan to begin his conquest of Hindu India, which started three centuries of foreign rule known as the Mogul period. In 1528, one of his noblemen built a mosque in Ayodhya. History suggests the Muslim invaders dismantled a Hindu temple to do so. That's the building and the site that is provenance of the current conflict: some Hindus say the temple, and then the mosque, sat on the actual birthplace of Rama. For a century-and-a-half, Hindus and Muslims squabbled over the mosque. For Hindus, reclaiming...
RUSSIA President Accused Former media mogul Boris Berezovsky attempted to link his one-time ally President Vladimir Putin to the bombing of Russian apartment blocks that killed over 200 people in September 1999. Berezovsky told a London news conference that Putin knew the country's special services were involved in the attacks. Putin, who headed the fsb security service before becoming Prime Minister that year, blamed Chechen rebels. Moscow said the accusations were an attempt to detract from investigations into Berezovsky's shady business dealings...