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...Foreign brands that got in early have made rapid progress. Upscale watchmaker Tag Heuer, which has averaged 40% growth in India over the last three years, has plans to expand from 80 shops to 120 in 2006; and Jimmy Choo is looking to open 10 shoe stores in India by 2011. The first will launch in New Delhi at the end of 2007, under the terms of a distribution agreement with the New York-based Murjani Group, which also distributes the Tommy Hilfiger brand in India. It helps that more retailing locations are becoming available. Two luxury malls are being...
...next time you pass through an airport and have to produce a photo ID to establish who you are and then must remove your shoes, take off your belt, empty your pockets, prove your laptop is not an explosive device and send your briefcase or purse through a machine to determine whether it holds weapons, think about this: In a single day, more than 4,000 illegal aliens will walk across the busiest unlawful gateway into the U.S., the 375-mile border between Arizona and Mexico. No searches for weapons. No shoe removal. No photo-ID checks. Before long, many...
...bath or nail polish off the sheets, they've done it with products that cost next to nothing and were likely already in the kitchen cupboards. Lush's cleaning staples are the same ones everybody's great-grandmother used: vinegar, bicarbonate of soda, methylated spirits, detergent, glycerine, milk. Shoe polish on the carpet? Eucalyptus oil. Rusty pans? Bicarbonate of soda and cut potato. Musty clothes? Put tea bags in the wash...
After roughly five hours, we were finally escorted to the baggage security check area. Soldiers searched every receipt, shoe, and toiletry in our bags. We were then individually asked to lift our shirts and remove our pants while being patted-down by security personnel. I did not even have time to feel embarrassed or violated before I was whisked away with a man named Ari from the Ministry of Defense. Ari was very interested in my family, where they came from, if I had relatives in the West Bank, why Harvard endorsed such a trip, and what I was studying...
...from very distant sidelines, as Mel and his people dithered with inconsequential projects. Two of these, a movie called Braveheart andwhat was the name of the other one?The Passion of the Christ, bombed miserably at the box office. While I felt sorry for him, I thought, Well, Old Shoe, you really have only yourself to blame. You could have been a star. You could have been a player...