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...informal. A key member of Khan's network told investigators that Iranian contacts once dropped off in Khan's apartment two suitcases containing $3 million in cash as a payment. From 1999 on, Khan traveled to Dubai 41 times, the Pakistani government says. Khan also kept a penthouse on posh al-Maktoum Road. When arranging a shipment, he would set up in Dubai dozens of shell companies consisting of nothing more than "a fax machine and an empty office," says a former colleague. As soon as the deal was done, he shut the companies down...
...looking for a more laid-back music scene, walk over to Frenchmen Street, the place locals go for a good time, away from the bead-tossing, shirt-lifting tourists. In the past few years several clubs have opened on Frenchmen. The newest, a dimly lit, posh hangout called the Hookah Café, has two spacious seating areas in which to catch jazz acts. The Spotted Cat, across the street, offers a more energized, down-home Frenchman experience. In either case, you've moved beyond Bourbon. And for that, you deserve a cold Hurricane.Onecold Hurricane...
Every morning 24-year-old Shahida Begum leaves her home in a Dhaka slum, wends her way through a posh diplomatic enclave and turns up for work at a garment factory overlooking the U.S. embassy. It's a commute she may not be making much longer. Like most of Bangladesh's 1.8 million textile workers, she has heard rumors that next year the American and European companies that buy clothes from her country will switch to Chinese manufacturers, leading to a shutdown of garment factories in Dhaka. The zero-sum math of globalization makes little sense...
...star-studded Nativity scene at London wax museum MADAME TUSSAUDS elevated soccer god David Beckham to biblical status last week, exhibiting wax figures of him and his wife Victoria, a.k.a. Posh Spice, as Joseph and Mary. As pop singer Kylie Minogue hovers angelically, Hugh Grant and Samuel L. Jackson appear as shepherds while Tony Blair, George W. Bush and Prince Philip portray wise men in the display, which will stay up until January. The Vatican has called the scene blasphemous. And with Posh as the Virgin, the church may have a point...
Harvard students may be making do with scraggly salads in the face of a nationwide tomato famine, but diners at the University’s more posh eating establishments are still able to see red mixed in their greens...