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...plush chairs in the lobby of Macau's Mandarin Oriental Hotel are filled with a cadre of journalists looking distinctly slovenly in their luxurious surroundings. Tripods poke out from underneath couches, cameras rest on tables and reporters crane their necks to stare down the corridors. The object of the press pack's Friday night stakeout is not the Prime Minister of Portugal, here on a two-day visit to his country's former colony. Instead, we're hoping to catch a glimpse of a man known for getting busted trying to sneak into Japan to visit Tokyo Disney...
...friends to catch up with, all over the world. "You know, right after the coup, I was in the U.S., and I met some friends who gave me some cheese," says Thaksin. "I told them: 'Don't worry, I can still smile without cheese.'" The jokes, told in the plush confines of Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, where Thaksin stayed back when he was Prime Minister, meet with appreciative chuckles from the assembled retinue of advisers, who still call him "Your Excellency." But for all of Thaksin's repeated protestations that he will bow out of politics, that his family needs...
...London's surging financial-sector fortunes go beyond just its booming stock markets. For evidence of that, take a look down the plush streets of Mayfair. Across town from the city's traditional financial quarter, and nestling between the art dealers and high-end jewelers, London's hedge-fund industry is quietly putting down roots. The city's share of the $1.23 trillion global industry had climbed to around 26% by June last year, up from 21% a year earlier. (In France, Europe's next largest market, assets came in at just 1.7% of the world total.) By clustering close...
...week later, I'm sitting in the audience at the plush Penn Club in midtown Manhattan, waiting to hear Post, the great-grandson of Emily, the etiquette pioneer. Post is turned out in corporate splendor--a sharp, dark gray suit. His tone is impassioned, as urgent as a preacher's. His message: Etiquette builds better relationships. Boiled down, he says, Biz Et has three aims: "Think before acting, make choices that build relationships, and do it sincerely." The well-tailored young business crowd pays rapt attention. They are the Rutgers pharmacy students fast-forwarded five or 10 years...
...actress had handed off her teeny heels and even teenier purse (which had nothing in it) to her agent. Sunshine's cast went home trophy-less so the only thing that survived on Breslin's arm was a stuffed monkey. "This is George," the actress said, introducing her plush date. Plenty of stars with whinier companions no doubt envied Breslin's choice...