Word: cosmopolitan
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...hoping to change that. In October, his trade group organized a three-city tour of India to introduce Indian consumers to the pleasures of bourbon, rye and other American whiskeys. At the New Delhi event, the New York City bar legend Toby Cecchini, who is credited with inventing the Cosmopolitan, mixed classic cocktails and some with an Indian twist, like whiskey sours spiked with ginger, for bar managers and bartenders from the city's top hotels and restaurants. "The Manhattans are awesome," said one attendee. (Read Indian business news here...
...Agriculture, the Interior, Environment (a woman), Instruction (another woman) and the Disaster Relief Agency are delivering good results. Ms. Carfagna is not just a pretty partygoer, her achievements as Minister for Equal Opportunities are hard to deny. Among the voters who elected Berlusconi were many urban professionals, well educated, cosmopolitan, weary of the stiff-upper-lipped intelligentsia. Demetrio Malara, VARESE, ITALY...
...opposing Telangana's secession have paralyzed much of the state. Trains have been blocked, businesses shut down. According to news reports on Saturday, two activists in favor of a "united Andhra" took their lives in protest of the state's splitting. The turmoil has also plunged Hyderabad, a booming, cosmopolitan I.T. hub, into panic as politicians and business leaders fret over the costs of the current instability. "This will be a total flop as investors will flee," says Amruthraj Padmanabhundi, a 27-year-old I.T. professional in Hyderabad. "I am very worried [about] my prospects slipping...
...stake in the balloting. Coakley would provide Democrats with a critical 60th aye vote, preserving the party's filibuster-proof majority - a fact that Brown (who began the race perhaps best known for the good looks that landed him a 1982 "America's Sexiest Man" centerfold in Cosmopolitan) has emphasized throughout the campaign. Though Massachusetts has not sent a Republican to the Senate in nearly four decades, animus over the proposed bill has helped Brown erase the double-digit lead Coakley enjoyed as recently as earlier this month. The state attorney general, Coakley, 56 - who would be Massachusetts' first female...
Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Washington Monday to represent an India emerging as a cosmopolitan economic powerhouse, his Parliament sent an ugly reminder that the world's largest democracy has a dark side: both chambers of India's Parliament have had to be adjourned repeatedly over the past two days amid a furor over leaked findings of a judicial inquiry into the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya...