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...begins to compose a fragrance, sending samples of the scent until it is refined to satisfaction. The whole process can take three months or more; prices start around $4,500 and go up depending on the rarity of the ingredients (rose extracts from the Saudi Arabian city of Taif cost $24,000 per batch). Once the perfume has been completed it is registered, and the customer receives a certificate of exclusivity. If you can't wait three months, then Florentine perfumer Lorenzo Villoresi will conjure up a fragrance in a mere two hours. You choose ingredient by ingredient - the master...
Besides sprouting trendy nightclubs, restaurants and fitness centers, Beirut has a new stadium, as well as new highways and traffic tunnels. Since the civil war ended with the Taif accord, giving Christians and Muslims equal power in Lebanon, old antagonists are settling their differences in the restored parliament building--rather than with gunfire across the Green Line that once divided Beirut. The Islamic fundamentalists of Hizballah, committed to social harmony with Christians, are among those tasting the nightlife--if not the alcohol that goes with...
...ambassador to a government without a country, Gnehm found his diplomatic skills tested almost daily at the Sheraton Hotel near Taif, Saudi Arabia, where the Kuwaiti leadership waited out the occupation. Tempers frayed, decisions were postponed, depression was common. A real crisis arose when Iraq started dumping Kuwaiti oil into the gulf in January. The Saudis and Kuwaitis argued over what to do. It took 48 hours of patient haggling, but Gnehm finally got both sides to agree: U.S. bombers would blast Al-Ahmadi oil facility's manifolds to stem the flow. Gnehm's best trick was getting Kuwait...
Since Iraq's T-72 tanks rolled into Kuwait seven months ago, special correspondent Michael Kramer has flown to Saudi Arabia on five separate occasions to report on the war. During each trip, he made sure to go to the mountainous resort of Taif to visit with Kuwait's ruling family and the government in exile. In his story this week, Kramer shares his unique perspective on the Kuwaitis and tells what he found when he entered the ransacked shell of Kuwait City with six Kuwaiti ministers...
...instructions from the government-in-exile in Taif, the resistance has for the most part ceased sniping at the Iraqi occupiers. But scattered automatic- weapons gunfire can be heard in Kuwait City about once every two days. "Some targets," Salem explains, "are just too tempting...