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...Xiamen has rediscovered its cosmopolitan roots. The city has a tradition of international trade that dates back centuries. More recently, companies like Kodak and Dell have set up shop. Fiona can send her kids to an international school, and the sisters dine out at a French restaurant where the chef is Israeli...
...subtle hand and rigorous tailoring. So flattering were the cut and construction of his clothes that Diana Vreeland once declared, "In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room." Born in a small Basque village in Spain in 1895, Balenciaga worked in his mother's seamstress shop and found his first client at 13 when a local countess permitted him to copy one of her couture dresses. She later paid his way to Madrid for formal training. By 1919 Balenciaga had his own couture salons in San Sebastian, Barcelona and Madrid, but the Spanish Civil War forced...
...lucky week for Katie Couric to open shop. It was an edifying week for the rest of us. But don't get used to this Washington-Hollywood glasnost. Openness, after all, can be as strategic as secrecy. Measured. Calculated. Dedicated toward the day when you're strong enough again to roll down the shades, put up the walls and pack the baby pictures safely away...
...Femina, now 37, is a New York City police officer and also owns the Suffolk County tattoo shop Inklinations, where he has tattooed dozens of people who lost loved ones in the World Trade Center free of charge...
...morning of September 11, 2001, I was at home. I was a detective in the narcotics division, but I'd taken the day off for the grand opening of my tattoo shop. After the second plane hit, I knew it was an attack. I drove to my precinct in Brooklyn, got dressed in my uniform, and waited for hours for a command to go down to the site...