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...hotels or office-block podiums. "When I first arrived in Asia," she explains, "I was in Hong Kong and got into a lift to go up to a restaurant on the seventh floor, where we were greeted by 20 Chinese guys saying 'Ciao' and singing 'O Sole Mio.' I thought, 'This is crazy.' A restaurant has to have some soul. The whole make-believe world has to have some basis in reality...
...search for a new home.) Her two Shanghai establishments - M on the Bund and the Glamour Bar - overlook the Huangpu River from the Nissin Shipping Building, built in 1921. They were the first ventures of their kind to grace the Bund since its prerevolutionary heyday. "At the time, everyone thought I was crazy to open a fine-dining restaurant there," Garnaut recalls, and the venture's rapid failure was predicted. Instead, scores of restaurants, bars and clubs followed in her wake, and the Bund is once again one of the most famous entertainment strips on the planet...
...Plasschaert, who led the Parliament's attack on the deal, said if the Obama Administration had proposed such a data-sharing arrangement in the U.S., "we all know what the U.S. Congress would say, don't we?" German lawmaker Martin Schulz was even more vocal, saying the U.S. "wrongly thought it could deal with the European Parliament like Gulliver with the Lilliputians...
There are also signs the Mexican public is losing its stomach for the fight. A Feb. 15 survey by Buendía & Laredo found that 50% of respondents thought the government offensive against drug traffickers has made the country more dangerous, while only 21% thought it had made it safer. Another 20% said it had had no effect and 9% gave no comment. Half of respondents also said they personally felt threatened by criminal violence, up from 35% who said they felt threatened in a 2008 survey...
...third once again, he floated to the outside, then zipped inside past another skater. How he didn't scrape the blocks and get disqualified was a miracle. And in the finals, he was ensconced in second place with two and a half laps to go. "In my head I thought the race was mine," he says. Then he slipped and fell from second to fifth but summoned the strength and speed to recover from this seemingly disastrous error, and finished third to win the bronze...