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...With this second time around, the ensemble has grown and learned along with the kids—now taller, bulkier and with noticeably deeper voices—and rectified many of the problems with the first year’s installment, with seamless special effects, superlative performances and staggeringly sumptuous visuals. Columbus glosses over exposition in Chamber—making the first film necessary viewing—and so is able to put more meat into each frame now that he’s afforded the luxury of focusing solely on plot. Virtually every major event makes it from page...
...sumptuous treats—including chocolate tarts, pecan pie, cheesecake and mousse cups—were served in the main dining room and on the front patio. Desserts last night were on the house, but when the restaurant opens to the public they will run from $8 to $30 apiece...
...real problem may lie elsewhere: "As far as the politicians were concerned Sabena had been sold and they weren't interested in it any more," grouses Gacoms. When Sabena was nosing into its death spiral, in the summer of 2001, a remarkable meeting took place at the sumptuous Astoria Hotel in Brussels. Over dinner on July 16, four months before the company tanked for good, Prime Minister Verhofstadt and the new head of Swissair cobbled together an agreement - in secret. In exchange for a Swiss commitment to inject j258 million into Sabena and take over nine of the Airbus orders...
...bulk of the city to the west, while the mostly residential Asian Istanbul is to the east. To get your bearings, take a ferry from the Eminonu docks up the Bosporus, stopping for lunch at one of the fishing villages near the Black Sea, passing a series of sumptuous villas and Ottoman houses along the way. European Istanbul is itself divided by the Golden Horn, an inlet off the Bosporus. The Old City, or Sultanahmet, to the south of the Golden Horn, is where you'll find all the main sights, including the Topkapi Palace, the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sofia...
...gutted old buildings. But Xintiandi feels like a sleight-of-hand: an insta-version of Shanghai that betrays little of the city's real history. Avoid it. Instead experience real colonial splendor at Face, located on the verdant grounds of the Ruijin Guesthouse. Face combines two restaurants and a sumptuous bar in an ornate mansion built in 1936. The two eateries offer northern Thai and Indian food, the latter in a romantic tent complete with wooden pillars and fountains. Never mind that you're in China and not eating, you know, Chinese food: Shanghai prides itself on offering...