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...Sipping a virgin piNa colada while sitting in the off-white pleather booths of a small Hong Kong wine bar with a few friends, Chen converses on topics ranging from designer Paul Frank's latest clothing line to rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg. She isn't apologetic about her absence of developed talent or the free pass she has received. "Connections. Timing. Luck. That's all this industry is," she says. At this stage of her career she approaches her job as she would a business venture. She attends weekly strategy sessions at Century Elements and continually suggests ways to increase...
...aims, quoting Confucius: "In human relationships, a gentleman seeks harmony but not uniformity." MEANWHILE The Mile-Wide Club Ever felt the person sitting next to you on the plane should have bought two seats? Then you'll sympathize with Barbara Hewson of Swansea, Wales, who received $20,000 from Virgin Atlantic for injuries she suffered after being squashed for 11 hours by an obese passenger on a flight two years...
...existence of the side agreement, let alone that the Swiss hadn't signed it. The result: when Sabena's financial crisis boiled over, Swissair argued it wasn't obliged to help. There were other big errors. Sabena signed a costly eight-year code-sharing agreement with Richard Branson's Virgin Express in 1996, under which Virgin flew some Sabena routes to London and other European destinations - though the board apparently was only told about a one-year deal. In 1999, Sabena merged its sales and marketing operations with those of Swissair into a new company, London-based Airline Management Partnership...
From a novel by the world's oldest bad boy, Bret Easton Ellis, comes this frenetically chic look at a daisy chain of collegiate craving. The cafeteria girl (Kate Bosworth) loves the scheming stud (James Van Der Beek), who loves the soulful virgin (Shannyn Sossamon), who loves the smug film student (Kip Pardue), while a gorgeous bisexual (Ian Somerhalder) is ready to have them all. Sex, drugs and rack 'n' ruin; pretty people doing nasty things to one another...honestly, what more could you want in a movie? --By Richard Corliss
...Virgin Suicides was a triumph of strange suburban melancholy. It marked Eugenides as a novelist of voluptuous gifts. Middlesex is a sign he's not sure what to do with them. The narrator, Cal, is a hermaphrodite raised by unsuspecting parents as a girl, until puberty forces him (her?) to opt for manhood. But before Cal can tell his own intricate story, we get hundreds of pages about his parents and grandparents (who are brother and sister; it's a complicated clan), the burning of Smyrna, the Detroit riots of 1967 and the Greek-American embrace of the beckoning American...