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...Police Bureau and began teaching at police schools, his salary from the department coming to about $150 a month. While many police in Thailand are notorious for supplementing their income with graft and payoffs, Thaksin, to his credit, instead cooked up numerous business schemes, from going into the family silk business to producing and distributing films to buying and selling commodities to building condominiums. All of them were failures. This is the dark period he insists contributed the most to making him who he is today. He recalls coming home after finding out from the bank that he had bounced...
...Clinton's natural talent runs to the production of silk purses - smooth, self-serving versions of things. Gottlieb will have to work hard to get some genuine sows' ears out of the man - the unadorned, unspun, real stuff that is supposed to be a primary ingredient in a life story: What really happened. Clinton, a genius of self-presentation, may, when pressed, only seem to get real: He will produce sows' ears with sequins on them, shimmering accessories so lovely, in fact, that mere silk purses will go out of fashion...
...Under this one roof you'll find washing machines, silk flowers, furniture, toys, linens, pots, and pans. Smocked and attentive sales staff will assist you in this retail labyrinth with their unique style of service. On the ground floor, ceramic black panthers pose among the branches of silk plants and painted ethnic masks. Beaded curtains ($18) are a fun and funky purchase...
...words of the Dalai Lama, who inaugurated the exhibition in May, to a Buddhist the sacred images are a "source of inspiration ... and enlightenment." Scroll paintings, for example, portray the Buddhist conception of the world and, to the initiated, reveal codified mysteries. Usually painted on cotton or silk brocade with colors made from mineral and vegetable dyes, the image on the thangka undergoes a consecration ceremony through which the deity represented comes to dwell in the painting and endows it with a "soul." Among 200 scrolls on display is a 19th century image, third of a series probably consisting...
...Security aside, some hotels are simply becoming more female-friendly. Typical is the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong, which offers Luxury Amenities Designed for You. For $128 extra per stay, guests can enjoy Bulgari toiletries, silk pajamas, drawn baths and other services. Harbor-view doubles cost $237 per night until Sept. 3; call (852) 2877-6666. International airlines, too, are targeting women: Virgin Atlantic has in-flight beauty therapists, and South African Airways boasts departure lounge massages and arrival make-up facilities. And the world over, firms like Armstrong's are touting single-sex holidays?from cycling in Vietnam...