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Each foot soldier who sells 20 tickets gets into a special VIP room stocked with free champagne. “The VIP thing is a little controversial because we want this to be a party for everyone,” Welch says. “But we wanted to give something back to the people that really helped...
...smaller room] is playing Beyoncé,” the DJ in the main room says, pushing for more house in the rotation. Melvin convinces him to stick with hip hop. At the last minute, a club official raises the price of the case of VIP champagne by $100, so the guys, now all present, opt for a cheaper open bar choice...
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...