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...Winston Hotel, tel: (31-20) 623 1380. Housed in converted terraces in the middle of Amsterdam's gritty red-light area, the Winston boasts an art academy, as well as several twin-bed "art rooms" designed by young up-and-coming conceptualists. There's everything from the stark sculpture of Nicolas Touron (who has covered the walls of room 407 with 600 kilograms of "crooked ceramic objects") to the installations of Orna Wertman (whose giant jigsaw puzzles-cum-installations plaster room...
...sauce, running shoes, yoga programs. It depends on you to like zesty Italian and me to like chipotle ranch and someone else to like low-sodium raspberry honey mustard. Through niche media, niche foods and niche hobbies, we fashion niche lives. We are the America of the iPod ads - stark, black silhouettes tethered by our brilliant white earbuds, rocking out passionately and alone. You make your choices, and I make mine. Yours, of course, are wrong. But what do I care...
...splintered fence poles and scattered strands of electric wire that, until last month, closed off a 20,000-hectare central Kenyan commercial ranch from the communal grazing lands of Masai herdsmen. To the Masai, most of whom make their living raising cows, sheep and goats, the landscape's stark divide is testimony to their need for grazing lands. With a population of about half a million, the Masai are one of the smallest tribes in this country of 32 million, but at the time of European arrival in the mid-19th century they dominated most of what is now western...
...pretty stark contrast to a year ago when luxury players were desperately searching for signs of recovery after months of falling stock markets and lackluster consumer confidence brought on by the Sept. 11 attacks. "What's happened is there is a necessity for a feel-good factor for luxury," says Dana Telsey, luxury-goods analyst for Bear Stearns. "With the improvement in the environment, especially after SARS and the war in Iraq, the demand for better products is expanding to all different levels--from the superpremium, like private jets and resort residences, to the accessible Coach...
Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian expatriate, was embraced by the comic-book world when her graphic novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood was published in English last year. Her autobiographical tale of a restless girlhood during the Islamic revolution in Iran, told in stark black and white, drew comparisons to Art Spiegelman and his Pulitzer-prizewinning Maus. This month Satrapi is back with her next installment, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. Part one found Satrapi and her family facing and surviving war, revolution, religious oppression and the execution of several loved ones. Part two begins with Satrapi...