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...inscribed a single word—“HOPE.” It was simple, but it was enough. That one word, transmitted across the nation from person to person as current through a wire, galvanized the masses into elevating a young senator from Illinois to the swankiest digs in the Oval Office...
...bomb was made safe and its constituent parts taken away for forensic analysis. Later, a second device was found, in a car pound in Park Lane that is overlooked by some of London's swankiest hotels. Traffic police had towed a second Mercedes, illegally parked near Tiger Tiger, to the pound early yesterday morning. The cars will provide ample forensic evidence but for now the facts of the case remain enveloped in a smog of speculation and confusion. Early reports that the driver had crashed the first car into a trash can outside Tiger Tiger, then abandoned the vehicle, have...
Payard is a third-generation pastry chef whose New York City bistro and patisserie is a place of pilgrimage for chocolate lovers. But the chef also caters some of the city's swankiest cocktail parties, and this book adapts some of his favorite recipes for the home cook. Although they can be a little complicated, his signature dishes--crispy polenta with pesto, parmesan eggplant and goat-cheese tarts and microwaved foie gras terrine--are worth the effort...
...crammed with an average of 4,500 people, although most have a capacity of 1,750. As a result, passenger groups say, an astonishing 3,500 travelers die every year on the tracks, hundreds simply falling from the trains. City rent controls have kept the price of its swankiest apartments almost unchanged since 1940, encouraging landlords to let them crumble--as several blocks do, fatally, every year. Visitors to the most prestigious offices in the country in south Bombay run a gauntlet of homeless people outside. Movie director Shekhar Kapur, who returned after years in London and Los Angeles, says...
...dank, aging facilities can now look forward to more comfortable journeys, with the fruits of a late 1990s terminal-building boom finally being realized. A slew of ultra-modern facilities has been unveiled in ten American cities, including Seattle, Miami, Detroit, New York and Los Angeles. The latest and swankiest is Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport's $1.4 billion Terminal D: a sprawling, two million-square-foot structure that brings ?lan to the world's third-busiest airport. Used almost exclusively by international...