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...country's new oil wealth is spreading throughout its region and beyond. Its big businesses are buying land and building hotels along Georgia's posh Black Sea coast and in Moscow, purchasing big banks and companies in Siberia, and investing in the telecommunications network of Nepal. Kazakhstan is the only country in Central Asia that attracts rather than supplies guest workers. "Kazakhs don't work in other countries' markets as vendors," proudly comments Zhenis Kasenov, an Astana dweller. "Kazakhs come there as buyers...
...were lower-middle-class oiks," Idle says of himself and most of the other Pythons, noting that only Cleese and Palin had gone to posh public (private) schools. Yet however scraped his circumstances or mean his surroundings, young Eric was not a pouter; he always looked on the bright side of life. And he developed an early facility with language. "I think I was always interested in words because in such a sterile environment you have to create your own entertainment, and explore your own brain.... I was more well read than most teenagers because at boarding school there...
...pipe across the Caspian seabed to Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, but Russia protested, citing potential ecological damage. So Kazakhstan ships oil there by tanker. The country's new oil wealth is spreading throughout its region and beyond. Its big businesses are buying land and building hotels along Georgia's posh Black Sea coast and in Moscow, purchasing big banks and companies in Siberia, and investing in the telecommunications network of Nepal. Kazakhstan is the only country in Central Asia that attracts rather than supplies guest workers. "Kazakhs don't work in other countries' markets as vendors," proudly comments Zhenis Kasenov...
...father of her four children. But while her colleagues were laying out their views on everything from the minimum wage to how to give the European Union more heft, Royal, who turns 53 this month, was seen on a ferry boat, on a live TV interview and at a posh portside restaurant. "As the leader of the race, it's not her job to bat around ideas with the challengers," explained Malek Boutih, a member of the party's National Secretariat. "She has to concentrate her power for the battle ahead against the right." Many are keen to remind...
...self-assessment What are your: Dreams, Goals, Skills and Talents? Achievement + Knowledge = Success." Aspiring actress Verity Gorman, 13, seems to have learned the lesson. Asked to audition for the 26-part series (which will be screened in Australia and England next year), she won the role of Lockie's posh classmate Sasha, a poised figure not unlike herself (pictured). "This has given me a small taste of what it's really like," she says of filmmaking. Tastes like teen spirit...