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...cheapskate capital at arm's length. That means everything from tapas joints to decadent martini lounges is finally on the menu. Face Bar, tel: (86-10) 6551 6788, swung open its doors in July, and is a good example of the new kind of venue to be found - blending northern-Chinese substance with an international style more commonly found in China's worldlier south. Housed in a crumbling former state schoolhouse near the Workers' Stadium, the striking, design-driven watering hole and accompanying restaurants (Lan Na Thai and the Indian Hazara) cost $1.9 million to develop. As in Face Shanghai...
...Born in Cairo in 1946, the son of a cotton industry official and a Nubian mother (the ethnic group found in southern Egypt and northern Sudan), Ibrahim got an engineering degree and started working for a telecommunications company in Sudan. He got his Ph.D. in the then-obscure field of mobile telecommunications, and eventually started a company called Celtel to develop mobile phone services in Africa. By 2005 it was operating all over the continent and was sold to a Kuwaiti company for $6 billion - the source of Ibrahim's wealth. He contends that Celtel never paid a bribe...
SIMPLY MING PBS, CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS "Fusion" food often means one condescending thing: Northern European cuisine fuses with bits of another, subordinated culture. Ming Tsai gives all world foods equal footing and pairs them unexpectedly. In the first show of the new season, Asia meets Mexico with a soy- and sesame-laced mole sauce; later he creates a Mediterranean-Chinese tapenade. Each episode uses one recipe--for a rub, sauce, paste and so forth--as the base of several dishes, a starting point from which the home cook can improvise. Competent and low-key in an era of high-decibel...
...perfectly normal where he came from; a mother dead soon after childbirth, two brothers lost to malaria, a majority of the population living on less than a dollar a day. Are we really so sure we know where compassion ends and colonialism begins? One retired nurse in Northern Malawi was blunt: "We can't afford to look after the thousands of babies that are being orphaned every day," she told the London Independent. "If rich people like Madonna take just one child it will be a major boost for Malawi...
...back against the Shi'ites in the hope of dimming the appeal of the insurgency - by expanding Sunni power and cracking down on the Shi'ite militias terrorizing Sunni communities - U.S. forces find themselves fighting on two fronts. Mounting tension between Arabs and Kurds over the fate of the northern city of Kirkuk, the oil town coveted by the Kurds for the de facto state they're creating in the north, suggests that this could still get even more complicated...