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Only once did something happen that might have given Massoud hope that the U.S. would help. In late June, he was joined in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, by Abdul Haq, a leading Pashtun, based in Dubai, who was opposed to the Taliban. Haq was accompanied by someone Massoud knew well: Peter Tomsen, a retired ambassador who from 1989 to '92 had been the U.S. State Department's special envoy to the Afghan resistance. Also present was James Ritchie, a successful Chicago options trader who had spent part of his childhood in Afghanistan and was helping bankroll the groups opposed to the Taliban...
Gone is the era when a meal in a department store meant a scoop of chicken salad on a plastic tray in a room reminiscent of your grandmother's conservatory. These days, shoppers at Peter Jones in London are feasting on warm squid and green chilli salad. At Selfridges one can tuck into a plate of salmon ravioli at the Premier restaurant, which has a view over bustling Oxford Street. At Harrods, the clientele in the Georgian Restaurant is nibbling terrine of foie gras with cèpes, fillet of red mullet and wild game pudding whipped...
...effort to keep pace with the competition, Peter Jones recently opened The Top Floor, a sleek, fully licensed café with seating for 270 and an espresso bar overlooking Belgravia. Joe Teixeira, head of catering, says the new venue caters not just to the ladies who lunch and their offspring, but a whole new market. "We get the stylish shopper eating here too," says Teixeira, adding that a second restaurant with a café-society theme opens next year. "The store is modernizing its retail and it made good business sense to do the same with the food." In March...
...Maybe that's a bit unfair. Although The Touch is transparently aiming for the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon audience and features some awfully familiar flying kicks, we have to be grateful that it avoids the cello solemnity of that blockbuster. Rather than high art, director Peter Pau aims for the high spirits of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones films, with their roguish heroes, cultured antagonists and mytho-archaeological quests. Still, at least Spielberg threw in the occasional Arabic subtitle, thereby adding a bit of real atmosphere?a quality The Touch sadly lacks despite its $20 million budget. Pau and Yeoh...
...Peter G. Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) and Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) want Rubin, now a director of Enron underwriter Citigroup, to testify about his role in the controversy. Others have questioned a rise in the statutory debt limit that Rubin pushed through Congress...