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Bored with brioche? Then you're just in time for Balthazar owner Keith McNally's latest New York City restaurant--a Lower East Side dive called Schiller's Liquor Bar. McNally promises there will be no VIP reservation lines, only "outcasts and layabouts." "It's a place where anyone can go," he says. The equally accessible menu features everything from fried-oyster po' boys to pork chops, all for less than...
...Airport Marriott in the liberal Democratic bastion of San Francisco last Friday, the President politely thanked his supporters for their "hard-earned dollars" and walked away $1.6 million richer. But the backroom brigadier of Bush's financial blitz was quietly working the velvet rope at the ballroom's VIP section. Jack Oliver, a little-known 34-year-old from Missouri, is the man largely responsible for what is being heralded as the most formidable money machine in modern political history...
Pakistan has taken a different approach to encourage the use of formal banking channels. The government set up an incentive program that gives overseas Pakistanis who send home more than $10,000 a year higher duty-free allowances and access to VIP airport-customs counters. The program also establishes remittance-based admissions quotas at the country's public universities. Official remittances to Pakistan, which has some 1,300 Western Union outlets, are expected to reach $4 billion this year, nearly triple the amount logged three years...
...international aviation industry is closely watching Lufthansa's new all-business-class service from Dusseldorf, Germany, to Newark (offered in partnership with PrivatAir), and some are even calling it the "new Concorde." The flight's VIP service and the absence of crying babies and scruffy backpackers have pleased the route's early passengers and encouraged the airline to expand service to Munich from Newark and schedule a Chicago-to-Dusseldorf flight starting in June. The carrier will not say whether the route is profitable, but it has been flying at a healthy 60% of capacity. Among U.S. business travelers, Indigo...
CLUB PASSIM BENEFIT CONCERT. 2003 Club Passim Benefit Concert featuring Odetta, Greg Brown and Garnet Rogers. Friday, March 14, 7:30 p.m. Tickets $45, $35, $25 and $15 for obstructed view; $100 VIP seats (includes post-concert reception with the artists) available only through Club Passim at 617-492-5300. Sanders Theater, Memorial Hall...