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...guesthouses, the elaborate Grand Hotel d'Angkor offers its top digs for?are you sitting down??$1,900 a night. The hotel has two 400-sq-m villas that come with everything a Hollywood star or head of state might want: two bedrooms with marble bathrooms, linens of Khmer silk and a private wine cellar. Guests?they've included director Oliver Stone, supermodel Kate Moss and Jordan's Queen Noor?are greeted with a decanter of brandy and enjoy the attention of a round-the-clock butler. The exotic outdoor pool area is so doused with pesticides that...
...most visitors to the country, is tiptoeing back from the brink of extinction, proof of Cambodia's cultural resurgence. Regular shows are staged in Phnom Penh at the Sovanna Phum cultural arts center, where viewers can enjoy the stylized sweeping hand and finger gestures of dancers outfitted in shiny silk sarongs that really fit: dancers are sewn into them before each performance...
...Boston City Regatta on June 19, 1858, tutor Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, and later a Harvard president, hurried with another member of the crew team to buy six Chinese silk handkerchiefs of a red hue. The impulsive purchase proved to have enormous repercussions for the color of the uniforms of football players, diplomas and “future Harvard graduate” T-shirts worn by toddlers for years to come. It would start Harvard down a rocky red road that left magenta and garnet by the wayside before settling on the now-ubiquitous crimson as the school?...
...were workers on the avenues around Tiananmen; in the crackdown that followed, only workers faced execution. Students received jail terms.) These days, those who challenge China's single, official labor union still face harsh penalties. Cao Maobing, for example, tried to set up a union at his state-run silk mill in eastern China's Jiangsu province two years ago. Local officials apparently decided that was a lunatic idea: Cao was involuntarily committed to an insane asylum for six months and abandoned organizing...
...still Bernie Schwartz from the Bronx, and "Sweet Smell" gave Curtis the role he was born to play - even as he knew Sidney was born (and condemned) to play J.J.'s well-tailored foil. "Look at the way Sidney looked," Curtis told Buford. "So...perfect. Great-looking, lean, silk shirts, tapered trousers. Couldn't get out of that environment. He's there forever...