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Thursday, May 23 2013
Towering Ambition
IF you seek a monument to Qatari ambition and achievement in Doha, look up. The capital of the wealthy Gulf state has transformed itself with dizzying speed from a dreary desert port into a kind of Manhattan with sand ...
THE POLITICS OF DIGNITY & SELF-RESPECT
MEMO to: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev Subject: Russia and the Arab Spring From: A traveller to Cairo and Moscow Dear Sirs: You may think that the situations ...
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Can Daniel Radcliffe get out of Harry mode?

"YOU just really freaked me out,´´ Daniel Radcliffe says. The 22-yearold actor, forever to be remembered for eight outings as Harry Potter, is speaking over the cell-phone from New York, where he´s looking down on the city streets from ...

Twinkling, bejewelled Indian wedding cards designed to wow
THEY could be Swarovski studded, they could match the bride´s trousseau, they could come in multiple folds and, yes, they might just cost Rs 100,000 (about $2,000) each. Welcome to the world of the big fat Indian wedding card! The country´s wedding market is said to be worth about Rs 1,500 billion (about $30 billion) - and growing at about 10-15 percent every year; so little surprise that marriage invites are getting to be a glitzy and exclusive affair. NRIs, especially, are a major constituent of this market. The wedding in 2004 of Britain-based Indian steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal´s daughter was said to have ...
It´s ´Ex-Factor´ for Abdul, Scherzinger, Jones
SIMON Cowell gave his talent show The X Factor a major shake-up, showing the door to host Steve Jones, judge Nicole Scherzinger, and even his old friend Paula Abdul after a lacklustre first season on US television. Cowell and broadcaster Fox confirmed on Tuesday that British host Jones, and former Pussycat Dolls singer Scherzinger would not be returning for the second season of the show in September. Abdul — Cowell´s old American Idol sparring partner — was also voted off in what some industry watchers called a bloodbath for the TV show that failed to measure up to its hype last year and struggled l...
Friendship gone sour!
ALL´S well that ends well. Shah Rukh Khan and Shirish Kunder, husband of choreographer- filmmaker Farah Khan, called a truce on Tuesday, a day after they were embroiled in a scuffle. Shirish said their friendship has become stronger than ever now. Farah was upset about a brawl between her superstar friend Shah Rukh Khan and her husband Shirish Kunder at a highprofile party recently. The fight is said to have taken place at popular club Aurus during Sanjay Dutt´s success party for Agneepath. "Shah Rukh has always told me that physical abuse is the worst way to sort out a problem and that it means the person ...

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