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...State Colin Powell that the non-Pakistanis on India's list would be the likeliest to be extradited. At the moment, the Bombay underworld has gone well and truly underground. At one point Dawood was surrounded at all times by a contingent of state security men who scrutinized every visitor. I remember he was also regarded suspiciously by the local gold smugglers and real-estate mafias, who don't want the newcomers poaching on their turf...
...furniture fair, is the most important event on the design calendar. Each year 175,000 people flock to the streets of Italy's commercial capital to see the new wares on offer by 1,600 companies. Navigating the Milan fair is no easy feat, and the brave first-time visitor who comes without an experienced guide is likely to be overwhelmed by the vastness of it all. There's the trade show bit, hundreds of booths in the Milan convention center, the Fiera. There are the cocktails, held each night at various showrooms around town so that cutting-edge designers...
...cities of Chicago and New York launched book projects that attempted, as she did, to mobilize whole populations to read the same novel during the same month. Whole populations shrugged. What mere government has Oprah's stately power? Then, again, maybe Franzen was right. Oprah was only a visitor to the world of books. It's the writers who are there for the long haul...
...people around me insist on going from A to B via P, T and X? Why do those infernal traffic lights, when not failing to impede traffic, flash the word relax? India sometimes seems to exist only to confound the expectations and to explode the tenses of a visitor from abroad. Flying into New Delhi recently, I was instantly lost inside a shouting commotion-traffic jams on the airport road at 2:15 on a Sunday morning!-and wondered how anything ever got done. INCONVENIENCE REGRETTED, read the age-old maxims on facilities being built, renovated or pulled down...
KNOW ALL Need a database of all the straw-plaited products on display at Guangzhou's Commodities Fair? Looking for manufacturers of high-low carbon silicon chrome? Believe it or not, there is a website for you. Apart from a full list of exhibitors, it provides visitor statistics on previous fairs and contact details for the event's many organizers...