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Cecil Sharp house in London's leafy Regent's Park is nobody's idea of a fashionable venue. The spartan headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society is home to such curiosities as tabor-drum workshops and Morris-dancing classes. Not a place, then, where one would expect to encounter Anna Wintour, the editor of American Vogue, especially not at the height of London Fashion Week. Yet Wintour, along with New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art's top brass, had an assignation there with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. So entertaining was the performance that...
...enough food on the table. It's understandable that Weil's book is addressed to a small population of élitist baby boomers who engage, as a habit, in the luxury of worrying about their wrinkles. But is this narrow point of view relevant to all your readers? Regent Lamoureux Bangkok Suicide Recruiter Your story on the Iraqi insurgent leader "Abu Qaqa al-Tamimi" (a pseudonym), who trains and equips suicide bombers [Oct. 24], provided another example of the dangerous weeds that grow in the pastures of religion. Killing Americans and his own people is what al-Tamimi does...
...unbelieving. Whether the enterprises are new or established and coming out of the religious closet, their numbers are exploding. Listings in the Shepherd's Guide, the nation's leading Christian business directory, have more than doubled in five years. Michael Zigarelli, dean of the School of Business at Regent University, a Christian school in Virginia Beach, Va., estimates that there are 500,000 to 600,000 "Christian owned and operated" businesses in the U.S. today--10% of all corporations...
Though most of the newcomers have imitated People's low-fare strategy, one fledgling carrier went to the opposite extreme. Regent Air, which currently flies only two planes between Los Angeles and Newark, offers lavish $785 flights that feature caviar, French champagne and on-board hairdressers and stenographers. But Regent has also experienced lavish losses: in its first two years it went $38 million into...
Customers looking for delicacies beyond the signature lukewarm slice can now find an unnervingly violent host of new offerings, including “regent bull,” “chicken bomb,” and “New England clam chowder.” Très chic...