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...Afghanistan, but the hardy business travelers and intrepid tourists who make the journey can at least stop worrying about finding a decent place to stay in the capital, Kabul. The city has unveiled its first luxury accommodation, the Kabul Serena Hotel (serenahotels.com), offering a sorely needed alternative to those somewhat disheveled media and diplomat haunts, the Intercontinental and the Mustafa, as well as to the dilapidated guesthouses where many visitors have had to hole...
...Afghanistan, but the hardy business travelers and intrepid tourists who make the journey can at least stop worrying about finding a decent place to stay in the capital, Kabul. The city has unveiled its first luxury accommodation, the Kabul Serena Hotel (serenahotels.com), offering a sorely needed alternative to those somewhat disheveled media and diplomat haunts, the Intercontinental and the Mustafa, as well as to the dilapidated guesthouses where many visitors have had to hole up. Costing $35 million to build, the Serena was erected over the shell of the old Kabul Hotel, destroyed in the civil war. The new property...
...Board of Economists at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week. "The outlook is basically for another Goldilocks kind ofyear," is how Laura D. Tyson, dean of the London Business School and a former White House economist, summed it up. The U.S. economy is expected to slow somewhat but still grow at around 3%, while China could notch up another year of scorching 9% growth. This year there are even encouraging signs of vitality in Japan and Germany, the world's second and third largest economies, which have struggled for years to break out of their torpor. Lurking...
...Cohen and Moskowitz, both members of the Orthodox Jewish community, where getting married earlier is more common, have encountered surprise of a somewhat different sort. Many of their friends from high school (both attended Jewish day schools) are already married, even though some have yet to enter their junior year of college...
...first two elections were reasonably credible and received pretty good marks in terms of adhering to international standards,” Blanc said. “[But] the series of local elections that have been held over the past 13 months have been somewhat more problematic.”The upcoming election has been complicated by the participation of militant Islamic group Hamas, which has been labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. and European Union. Hamas is fielding at least 115 candidates for the 132 seats, according to the BBC. Palestinian leaders have claimed that engaging Hamas...