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...that the most valuable thing the global rich bring to Britain isn't their cash. Tony Travers, head of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics, says that visible groups of powerful people from other countries living and working in London is a priceless form of "soft diplomacy," advertising Britain as the place to be for the world's best and brightest. "For other people in those countries thinking of where they should invest when they go to open a new business or expand an existing one, the fact that there is a group from their...
...with the world's rich come their kids, future soft diplomats who either grow up to study, live and work in London or go back home with lifelong links to the city. "You go to Hong Kong now, and half the top businessmen you talk to were educated in Britain," says Barnaby Lenon, headmaster of Harrow, a top boarding school for boys where 10% of the students are foreigners. "Even if our students don't stay in London, if they're involved in the world of finance, it's going to be indirectly a great help to British business...
...willingness to say "I don't know" is honest, often to a fault. You could almost sense his audiences arguing with themselves at his town meetings: "What a great American! ... But does he really think Washington politicians are going to stop pork-barrel spending? And why is he so soft on those illegal immigrants...
...your heels? Notice the quick little eyebrow raise you make, the sidelong glance coupled with the weak smile you give, the slightly sustained gaze you offer? If you're a woman, do you feel your head tilting to the side a bit, exposing either your soft, sensuous neck or, looking at it another way, your jugular? If you're a guy, are you keeping your body in an open, come-on-attack-me position, arms positioned to draw the eye to your impressive lower abdomen...
Combined with the soft, atmospheric lighting of Michael Zellmann-Rohrer ’10 and the set’s pillow-strewn palace rooms and smoking dens (designed by Aileen K. Robinson ’08), Orlosky’s choreographed belly-dances made for a production that sometimes came off as excessively luxurious. Despite Okocha’s terrific performance, it was impossible to ignore the fact that Shahrazad is less a character than an embodiment—there were innumerable references to her “beautiful body”—of a set of existential...