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...watched the English cricket team arrive in India last week for a two-month tour, Harish Thawani reflected on how the gentleman's game of clipped lawns and breaks for tea and cucumber sandwiches was changing. A few days before, Thawani stunned the sports world by paying $612 million?11 times the previous price and the biggest deal in cricket history?for the TV rights to Indian cricket for four years. "India is the new cricket superpower," says Thawani in the Bombay office of Nimbus Communications, a Singapore-based sports-production firm of which he is chairman. "India now provides...
...whole body along for the ride. According to director Janet Fernandez, its philosophy is: "To balance all five senses in order to release your sixth sense?your internal flame." To this end guests are welcomed before treatments in a chic, chandelier-lit waiting room with a glass of ginger tea and a ginger candy to purify the body and boost energy levels, before being led to the sauna?the best seat in the house. With one wall entirely made of glass, the women's sauna overlooks a magnificent panorama of the Mediterranean, while men can gaze at the buzzing Catalan...
...rousing rounds of karaoke. Even better than belting out the words to Gloria Gaynor’s karaoke classic “I Will Survive” was the visit the group took to the Shaolin Temple as guests of the municipal government. There, they got to attend tea with the abbot of the temple, who was flanked by an entourage of 27 bodyguards. “There were all sorts of things [at the temple] that seem taken straight from legend,” said David J. Henderson ’07. “There were several trees...
...years later, the chief British official in China, Sir John Bowring, coined the dictum: “Free trade is Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is free trade.”More earnings from trade were also needed to pay for growing quantities of that essential British import, Chinese tea. In the 1660s, Britain imported some two lbs. of it; by the 1780s that had become 15 million lbs., and by 1830 it was 30 million. To balance this, the British needed to sell more to China—but the Chinese did not want nearly enough of what...
...date’s perfect harmony hit a snag when the couple chose different flavors of bubble tea. “That must be the missing 2% in our compatibility,” Lu said. And while Lu didn’t score a goodbye kiss after walking Vangelakos back to Canaday, he parted by saying, “We can definitely hang out in section...