Later we would all say, “I was there. I saw it happen.” At the time, when he was brought on as a substitute, it was actually a welcome break, a chance for […]
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the Secret Life of Hotels
The Dominique Strauss-Kahn incident has incited lively conversations among industry colleagues as well as among most of my staff at a private company that supplies concierges to hotels, where many of us […]
Interview with Francis Fukuyama
We start with the news of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest, which has just broken. “Isn’t that an amazing story?” Fukuyama says. “Even if it was an entrapment of some sort, the way he […]
Lady Gaga takes tea with Mr Fry
It takes quite a bit to excite the staff of The Lanesborough Hotel, one of London’s more self-consciously luxurious five-star residences. Princes, sultans, presidents, oligarchs and film stars have been coming here […]
China’s most expensive flat unveiled
Just as the Chinese government is trying to rein in soaring house prices a real estate developer in Beijing has unveiled what Chinese media report is by far the most expensive apartment […]
Coca-Cola at the Design Museum
To celebrate its 125th anniversary, Coca-Cola has just opened a new display on the history of its visual identity at the Design Museum in London. The exhibition fills the Design Museum’s glass […]
Two Greenpeace ships confront world’s most controversial oil rig
onfidential UK government documents acquired by Greenpeace and released today reveal that the British foreign office believes any oil spill in Arctic waters would be impossible to deal with. The rig’s destination, […]
Street Life in Lagos – Witness – Al Jazeera English
Street Life in Lagos – Witness – Al Jazeera English.
Mark Zuckerberg has his own personalized stationery
You won’t know this unless you’ve sent Mark Zuckerberg mail the old-fashioned way, but the Facebook CEO has a personalized stationery set designed in-house by one of the company’s designers, Ben Barry. […]
Cutting-edge Turkish artist opens first solo show in New York
Manhattan’s Charles Bank Gallery is presenting the first high-profile solo exhibition of a Turkish artist in New York. ‘Noneisafe,’ by Malatya-born Vahap Avşar, draws from 20,000 archival images that span the period […]
