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...Spirits don't come much more generous than this. These days, Moss is not short of remunerative assignments if his prolific output of books and articles is anything to go by, and he is living in a spacious new home on Ma Wan-an outlying island of Hong Kong where slick new apartment blocks juxtapose a largely abandoned fishing village that was once the island's only settlement. From the highest colonial circles to a working-class estate to an island home that encapsulates the new Hong Kong as it hovers between the past and future: Moss's trajectory mirrors...
...Karr has now let the world into some of his secrets. On Wednesday evening, the wan, sandy-haired one-time grade school teacher arrived at Bangkok's Suan Phlu immigration pen, to spend the night in a solitary cell. The day before, a judge in Boulder, Colorado, had issued an arrest warrant for Karr in the nearly decade-old murder of JonBenet Ramsey, the six-year-old child beauty pageant contestant. Soon after, a small group of plainclothes Thai and U.S. officers arrived at his shabby apartment, where Karr had stayed since arriving from Malaysia in June, on the latest...
...Chiu added. “He didn’t have a bad start—[Yale] just came out firing and went up on him.” With the score tied, Brown defeated Harvard’s Sasha Ermakov at No. 4 and Brian Wan at No. 6 to clinch the match. No. 5 Chiu knocked off his opponent 7-6, 6-4, for Harvard’s final point. “I had a lot of fun out there,” Chiu said of his match. “It was pretty close...
...Brett McKeon at No. 3 in a close match, 6-8. In the singles matches, however, Harvard could never get it going against Cornell. The only Crimson victory came from Nguyen at the sixth position. Kumar, Clayton and Ermakov all lost in three sets, and Chu and sophomore Brian Wan were defeated in two. “It was a total shocker,” Kumar said. “Collectively, it was the worst singles performance we’ve had all season. With our depth, we usually find a way to win three...
...Still, many luxury-goods retailers predict that their India business will develop relatively slowly compared with their business in other emerging markets such as China. One major barrier is India's stiff tariffs on high-end imports?the tax on imported watches, for example, is 50%. Joseph Wan, Group Chief Executive for Harvey Nichols, the London-based retailer, says India's recent economic growth and indications that New Delhi is prepared to liberalize its markets are encouraging, but adds that prime real estate in Indian cities is too expensive and that tariffs are prohibitively steep. "Harvey Nichols caters...