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SCOTT'S Tom Ford was among the first through the doors when Scott's of Mayfair, founded in 1851, reopened in December...
...London's surging financial-sector fortunes go beyond just its booming stock markets. For evidence of that, take a look down the plush streets of Mayfair. Across town from the city's traditional financial quarter, and nestling between the art dealers and high-end jewelers, London's hedge-fund industry is quietly putting down roots. The city's share of the $1.23 trillion global industry had climbed to around 26% by June last year, up from 21% a year earlier. (In France, Europe's next largest market, assets came in at just 1.7% of the world total.) By clustering close...
...Breakfast at Tiffany's set Hepburn on her 60s Hollywood course. Holly Golightly, small-town Southern girl turned Manhattan trickster, was the naughty American cousin of Eliza Doolittle, Cockney flower girl turned Mayfair Lady. Holly was also the prototype for the Hepburn women in Charade, Paris When It Sizzle and How to Steal a Million: kooks in capers. And she prepared audiences for the ground-level anxieties that Hepburn characters endured in The Children's Hour, Two for the Road and Wait Until Dark...
...Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. At the end comes the spiritual heart of the meal: rice, pickles and the best miso soup around. If Umu sounds traditional, it isn't. The reinvented Kyoto flavors are restrained, but the trendy London setting is not. A hidden door on the streets of tony Mayfair glides back at a touch on a lighted panel. Inside, it's opulent yet relaxed, designed to make everyone look rich and beautiful. Don't worry if you can't pronounce anything, because most of the wait staff are just learning themselves. They're happy to help navigate the extensive...
...Gaddafi had taken heart from the willingness of the U.S. and Britain to reach a compromise agreement over Lockerbie. As those negotiations neared their conclusion with a partial lifting of sanctions, Seif al Islam secretly met with three MI6 officers in a hotel room in London?s posh Mayfair district late one Sunday afternoon in March 2003. (An aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Mohammed Rashid, arranged the rendezvous...