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...uncommon luxuries by local standards. The 177 rooms come with modern furnishings, marble bathrooms, satellite TV and Internet connections on demand. Guest amenities include a business center, a health club, a swimming pool and a beauty salon. There's an international buffet restaurant, the Caf? Zarnegar, and, incongruously, an Asian specialty restaurant, the Silk Route, which offers Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian and Thai cuisine...
...exclusive, behind-the-scenes report on the making of Memoirs of a Geisha, the first big-budget Hollywood movie with an all-Asian cast of superstars, prompted readers to share their observations on the repression of women and the relative merits of Chinese and Japanese actors Richard Corliss's article on the filming of Memoirs of a Geisha was very well written [Jan. 9]. Although this depiction of the geisha tradition of Japan will surely become a worldwide hit, the fact that the "main geishas are played by Chinese women speaking English, which they were taught to intone...
...luxuries by local standards. The 177 rooms come with modern furnishings, marble bathrooms, satellite TV and Internet connections on demand. Guest amenities include a business center, a health club, a swimming pool and a beauty salon. There's an international buffet restaurant, the Café Zarnegar, and, incongruously, an Asian specialty restaurant, the Silk Route, which offers Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian and Thai cuisine. As you'd expect, none of this comes cheap. Standard room rates start at $250 a night. But the Agha Khan Foundation for Economic Development, the Serena's main backer, is betting that guests will happily...
...including Atul Kochhar, the first Indian to receive a Michelin star, flew in to prepare meals. The message was clear: India is in. And less explicitly: it's time for the world's decision makers to stop obsessing about China and take a closer look at the other emerging Asian economic heavyweight. The strategy, a year in the making, worked brilliantly, although perhaps not quite as the Indians intended. The sheer ubiquity of the Indian presence didn't focus the spotlight just on the subcontinent, but on the race between India and China for growth, prosperity and investment...
...Sciences and return to the faculty at the end of the 2005-06 academic year. Starting this summer, he will take the lead in guiding Harvard's growing array of initiatives focused on China, his longtime field of scholarly expertise, as director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. I want to express my gratitude, personally and on behalf of the Harvard community, for Bill's imaginative and dedicated leadership of the FAS these past several years...