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...invitation of the Ministry of Culture after he translated the C.R. Ramuz-Igor Stravinsky opera The Soldier's Tale into Arabic. He has no plans to return permanently, however, and sees the diaspora as being potentially fruitful for artistic expression. "There's a new [Iraqi] generation involved in [British] culture but related to ours - so this relationship can create something new for the future...
...HEADGEAR $3,000 Cost of a shoulder-length, ceremonial wig worn by British judges and lawyers. The government announced that it would be abandoning the wigs in civil and family courts in 2008 $610,000 Amount the British government expects to save annually by ditching the wigs, which have been used in courts since the 17th century...
...cheap place in which to travel, do business and buy things. Americans visiting Europe or the U.K. know an expensive currency when they see one. New Yorkers returning from London say the prices there look almost the same as in New York, except they are quoted in British pounds, which are now worth more than $2 each. I learned of a delegation of wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs who on a recent visit to America insisted on going to discount malls to buy designer goods at what they believe are the cheapest prices in the world (and which they know will...
...successful mission would have generated for the Hilton the kind of lurid publicity that another upscale Mayfair hotel recently garnered. It was in the nearby Millennium Hotel, last November, that Berezovsky's former employee Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian-born British citizen, drank tea contaminated with the radioactive isotope polonium-210, which killed him. British investigators identified as their prime suspect Andrei Lugovoi, like Litvinenko, a former kgb man. Moscow has turned down London's request for Lugovoi's extradition...
...Spies, guns, poison, intertwined plots so convoluted that you need to keep flicking back to the beginning of the book: it could all come from the pages of a cold war thriller. But it is very of the moment. The British government's decision to protest Moscow's refusal to hand over Lugovoi by expelling four Russian diplomats is just the latest manifestation not only of an increasingly bad-tempered spat between two nations, but of the estrangement from the West of Vladimir Putin's Russia...