It’s time to work your CNY sartorial magic again, and we don’t mean putting on your regular reds and pinks. This year, why not change things up with modern iterations of the cheongsam (think: dresses and matching separates in bold silhouettes with eye-catching prints and unexpected details)? Here, we roundup our favourite labels giving the traditional dress a whimsical, edgy.
a somewhere fay very famous man established singapore. singapore is a country with democracy in the far east. he was having lunch with him one time and asked him what kind of democracy do you have? he said we have our own democracy. it s not u.s.-type democracy. what he meant by that, we have a system whereby by participation of the people has to be implemented. and i believe that saudi arabia will have to enact some new laws whereby participation of the people has to do one for another. what about the relationship of the saudi royal family to the religious establishment? ever since the taking of the grand mosque in mecca, the saudi royal family seemed to get into a deal where they ceded very important parts of the kingdom, education, religious affairs to fairly radical wahabi people. because they felt this would ensure there was no challenge to the monarchy. my sense is over the last five, seven years there has been a turn where it was recognized that this was not such a good id
but first up the chances of peace in the middle east after the latest round of speeches by prime minister netanyahu and president obama. i ll be joined by tom friedman of the new york times who is just back from the middle east. now, here s my take for this week. we ve just gone through an arcane debate about whether barack obama said anything new when he called for an israeli/palestinian settlement based on 1967 borders with mutually agreed upon land swaps. in fact, that has been the working assumption of all negotiating parties, america, israel and the palestinian authority, for over 20 years. it is what the camp david talks of 2000 were based on. it s what elmerit s talks were based on. the real shift in u.s. policy was president obama publicly condemning the palestinian strategy to seek recognition as a state from the u.n. general assembly in september. instead of thanking obama for this, prime minister netanyahu chose to stage, in the words of the former israeli di