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Since she was wearing a silk dress, she refused. But the staffer insisted: “No one will know...
That morning, we decide that Angela will wear a bride costume she designed earlier in the year: a floor-length strapless gown with a train made from fuchsia cotton and maroon silk from Pakistan sewed over a fleece blanket. She covers her head with a matching tulle veil and burgundy wooden mask...
...million financial package, and shareholders would get a chance to vote on it. First, they got a chance to sound off. "This American-style remuneration has no place in this country, and if you don't revise this package you will have set a very dangerous precedent," shareholder Victor Silk told HSBC chairman John Bond. But in the end, Aldinger carried off his saucer of cream with relative ease. Bond's argument that Aldinger would be getting slightly less than his previous pay package was grudgingly accepted by the majority of shareholders, and institutional investors voted heavily in his favor...
...Gangtok. Whiling away an afternoon on the terrace is a pleasant diversion from shopping for handicrafts. It also offers a chance to bump into celeb guests like Bollywood star Danny Dengzopa or the Dalai Lama. The Dragon Bar, replete with a barman in a black hat and a red silk tunic, also serves a mean gin and tonic-as long as it isn't one of the state's dry days...
...history of man can be read as a litany of metropolises risen and fallen. The first major clusters of wealth, such as Babylon, Bactria, Nineveh, Persepolis, Samarkand and Thebes, were mostly located around the Nile, Euphrates and Tigris rivers and along the Silk Road. With the rise of the seafaring Phoenician trading empire, prosperity and power shifted toward the Mediterranean Sea. At different times, this led to the emergence of Alexandria, Athens, Carthage, Constantinople, Rome and Tyre. And in the 15th century, it culminated in the first centers of capitalism: the Italian trading cities of Florence, Genoa, Pisa and Venice...