Friday, August 8, 2008

Waiter dishes out revenge in a funny book on tipping

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TIPPING. It’s a time-honoured ritual and sacred practice in the United States, and breakers of the rule are doomed to end up as social paria...
Friday, August 1, 2008

The awesome magic of newspapers

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IT WAS Sept 10, 1963, and the simple black and white photograph on the front page of the late edition of Daily News became the defining mom...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Expect cops to go strictly by the book in New York

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THE New York Police Department (NYPD) came under unwanted attention two weeks ago for the manner in which it dealt with a detective who went...
Friday, July 18, 2008

Hollywood just keeps them enticed and entertained

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TWIN births, the messy divorce of an ex-supermodel and Material Mom’s supposed affair; the past week saw headlines made in tabloid heaven fo...
Friday, July 11, 2008

Zamruni – A man of many interests

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GOLF is the name of the game for diplomats, right? Not so for M. Zamruni Khalid, the new Consul-General in New York. He looked almost paine...
Saturday, July 5, 2008

Gay city parades as America celebrates with Pride

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THEIR lean, rippling bodies glistened with sweat under the summer sky. Bare-chested in the tightest of briefs, the men danced on the street ...
Friday, June 27, 2008

The Japanese are coming, again

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AT Nobu New York, getting a table is a problem “unless you’re Cameron Diaz”. That was Zagat’s description of the high-end Japanese restauran...