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DUBAI Vertu's Constellation ($4,650) includes a concierge, which a local client used to plan a wedding...
...Chinese authorities blame Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, for the protests. The Tibetan government installed by Beijing alleged, in a statement released Saturday, that the demonstrations had been organized by "law- breaking monks and nuns," as part of a plan by the "Dalai Lama organization" to destabilize Tibet. Aides to the Dalai Lama said these allegations were "absolutely baseless," and that the unrest was "spontaneous." Earlier last week, the Dalai Lama told supporters gathered to commemorate the 49th anniversary of his escape to India after a failed anti-China uprising, that "repression continues to increase with numerous...
...obstacles in obtaining permits and funding to make their movies. "Politics has a direct impact on my art. I can't stay indifferent. Either I get involved or I lose," she says, sitting in her office that she has temporarily converted into the Artists' Headquarters of Reformists. For her plan of action, Hekmat spent one and a half days on the phone and got the signatures of more than 170 of some of Iran's most renowned film people on a pro-reform statement - the first time that a collective statement by artists has been issued in support...
...What's more, the leaders have already rejected one measure touted as a boost to the environment: a plan to cut sales tax, or VAT, on green goods and services to just 5%. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, backed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, was politely rebuffed at the summit when he outlined his proposal to give favorable tax treatment to such products as low-energy light bulbs and fridges...
...Brown and Sarkozy also found little support for their joint plan for levies on imports from countries not respecting similar high climate change rules, with outgoing Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi warning of "an unending spiral of retaliations," if such a system is introduced...