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Byline: Jonathan Tepperman Luxury lies not in how much stuff we have but in how well it's made--and how highly we value it. This story starts with a confession: I own too many clothes. I can give you all sorts of rationalizations--they're a way...
Byline: David Miliband After 2001, the foreign policies of many countries were shaped in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, which had wrenched minds back to the imperative of national security. Today those foreign policies are again...
Byline: Melinda Liu Why the architectural icons Beijing built for the Olympic Games stand empty. China is a command economy run by engineers, a fact that served the nation well during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Leaders cleaned up pollution...
Byline: Peter Tasker It's the end of a quarter of a century of Reaganomics. It's the end of equities, of globalization, of capitalism itself. We need a new system, a new economics, a whole new set of values. The bull market in overheated rhetoric...
Byline: Mary Hennock Chen Zhu is a new model Chinese leader, a non-communist who trained in the West. In the relative privacy of the minibus, Chen Zhu lets down his guard. "It's a shame," China's health minister almost whispers, glancing at his...
Byline: Susan H. Greenberg When my husband first proposed that we build a wine cellar in the basement, I confess I rolled my eyes. It just seemed so pretentious and unnecessary. After all, we live outside Boston, a city full of great restaurants...
Byline: Sameer Reddy A host of smaller couture houses are turning out designs to rival Chanel and Dior. Couture is not dead; it's merely gone incognito. At the haute couture shows in Paris in January, a few hours after Chanel staged a winter-white...
Byline: Sameer Reddy Design hotels have figured out how to deliver stylish innovation for the cost of a night at the Holiday Inn. When the Morgans Hotel opened in New York City in 1984, the first property in Ian Schrager's soon-to-be empire pioneered...
Byline: Ginanne Brownell Top chefs are serving it up simple--and cheap. In this economy, it's all about the food. It's Friday night in London's trendy Shoreditch neighborhood, and the Albion is humming. East End hipsters, bankers and friends...
Byline: Joanna Chen Hurting for business, top restaurants are devising recession menus to lure diners back to the table. Not every meal has to be a no-frills affair. Some luxury restaurants are simply serving slightly less of their lavish offerings....
Byline: Cathleen McGuigan With designer architecture, it's the quality--not the size--that matters. Not long ago, a potential client called architect Deborah Berke in New York. Berke's elegantly spare contemporary houses have attracted a devoted...
Byline: William Underhill The Labour search for a new identity has settled, for now, on the unlikely character of Harriet Harman. Gordon Brown's poll ratings are in the dumps, but for vicious headlines it would be hard to compete with Harriet...
Byline: Andrew Nagorski Even to some of the closest observers of Russian foreign policy, it's almost impossible to know which direction Moscow is headed. One day it's threatening to station missiles aimed at Poland in its western enclave of Kaliningrad;...
Byline: Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen Turkey's prime minister will need political courage to reform his country and bring it closer to Europe. Bringing Turkey to Europe's door has been Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's epochal achievement....
Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Nervy collectors can find plenty of great deals on fresh, top-quality works, contemporary as well as classic. Ever so clever and tapped into the zeitgeist, the German publishing house Taschen recently sent out an e-mail...
Byline: Melinda Liu The mood in china appears to be reaching a tipping point, as its normally bland leaders abandon cautious diplo-speak under the pressures of the global financial crisis. First, they blamed American capitalism for the crisis and...
Byline: Gary Player Just how important is Tiger Woods? Consider that in the eight months since he's been out of the game with an injury to his left knee, followed by reconstructive surgery, television ratings for big golf tournaments have reportedly...
Byline: Nick Foulkes Top brands are getting back to their core values--and customers. It's about time. It is a pretty depressing business trudging on through this downturn, recession, depression or whatever your euphemism of choice for the financial...
Byline: Joanna Chen A priceless watch, a daring heist--now on view in Israel. Marie Antoinette must have turned in her grave to see her pocket watchataken apart and wrappedain old newspaper. But that was its fate after an agile thief lifted it...
Byline: David McNeill The DPJ is poised to win control of Japan, but its agenda is far from clear. Who said Japanese politics are boring? There's an electoral earthquake looming this fall, when the ruling Liberal Democratic Party looks set to...
Byline: Rana Foroohar Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz on the coming global economic order. The power shift from west to east continues, as developing nations flexed their muscles at the G20 in London recently, and China and Russia called for...
Byline: Adam B. Kushner Once upon a time, Mexico was only an adjunct in the war on drugs, which Gen. Barry McCaffrey fought in his job as Bill Clinton's drug czar. The Vietnam and Desert Storm veteran used to see Latin America through the lens of...
Byline: Jenny Hontz Driving through Deception Valley in the Kalahari Game Reserve, our safari guide spotted an entire herd of oryx boldly advancing toward a cheetah, chasing it into the bush. Thrilled with this rare sighting of an endangered cat,...