Mitchel Raphael on the Belinda connection to MacKay's hot date
By Mitchel Raphael - Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 8 Comments
MacKay’s new romance?
There was much buzz about Defence Minister Peter MacKay’s date for the True Patriot Love fundraiser for Canadian troops held in Toronto. MacKay arrived at the dinner with former Miss World Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam. Rumours of a romance have been reported. The interesting twist is that back in 2006, Afshin-Jam was on the Hill talking to MPs and fighting to save the life of another Iranian who shares her first name, Nazanin Fatehi. Fatehi stabbed one of the men who attempted to rape her and was sentenced to hang. (She was eventually released.) One of the MPs who helped Afshin-Jam at her Ottawa press conference was former Liberal MP (and former MacKay girlfriend) Belinda Stronach.
Coffee, compost and the PMO
The closest coffee place to the PMO, which is in the Langevin Block, used to be a Tim Hortons. A while back it was replaced with a Bridgehead café, known for its fair trade and organic coffees. Not only does Bridgehead have recycling bins, it has compost bins as well. Bridgehead staff say they see a lot of PMO staffers come in and also note that NDP Leader Jack Layton gets his hot beverages there too. When PM spokesperson Dimitri Soudas was spotted with a Bridgehead hot apple cider, he said his choice of coffee purveyor was based purely on convenience and was in no way a political statement.
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Date nights
By Josh Dehaas - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 1:00 PM - 0 Comments
From ‘wobbles’ to wedding plans: William and Kate meet, break up and make up
Johnny Green/PA; M Neilson/Getty Images; Davidson/O'Neill/Rex Features
Sept. 2001: Prince William and Kate Middleton enrol at the University of St. Andrews where they both study art history. William learns art isn’t his calling. Later that year, when he “wobbles” academically, Kate convinces him to stay in school, but in geography instead.
March 2002: William reportedly pays $450 for a front-row seat to a cheeky charity fashion show where Kate walks the runway wearing little more than her underwear. Reports say he leaned in to kiss her, but she pulled away.
Sept. 2002: The pair move into a four-bedroom house together, along with two friends. Rumours of their relationship emerge, but Kate is still dating someone else.
June 2003: Rumours swirl that William is dating the heiress of a wealthy family in Kenya, but his friend Kate attends his 21st birthday at Windsor Castle. Prince Charles tells the media that, to his knowledge, his son is single.
Sept. 2003: The couple, along with two friends, move into a country cottage near St. Andrews “on two acres of wild grassland hidden behind a six-foot stone wall,” according to author Katie Nicholl.
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The misfortune of an interesting life
By Mike Doherty - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 12:20 PM - 1 Comment
Salman Rushdie spent almost a decade in hiding after Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him
These days, Rushdie seems serene and quietly happy—exactly the type to be calm in the eye of a storm, literary or otherwise | Alberto Estevez/EPA/Keystone Press; Mohsin Raza/Reuters
Midtown Manhattan is almost afloat, battered by a near-monsoon. Sheets of rain drench anyone foolhardy enough to cross 8th Avenue, but when Salman Rushdie saunters into the Wylie Agency, umbrella in hand, there’s nary a droplet to be seen on his pinstriped suit.
He may look rather devilish in photographs, but in person, Rushdie, now 63, seems serene, unflappable, quietly happy—exactly the type to be calm in the eye of a storm, literary or otherwise. In a spacious office, he reminisces about how much smaller Andrew Wylie’s headquarters were when the literary super-agent poached him in 1987; the move helped the predatory Wylie earn the nickname “The Jackal.” The next year, Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, which would vault him to an unforeseen level—and undesirable type—of fame in 1989, when the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him.
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Station wagon chic
By Kate Lunau - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 12:20 PM - 1 Comment
In portraying itself as the “cool” choice, Toyota has reinforced how boring its vehicles can be
The unintential star of Toyota's latest ad is the Roadmaster, not the new SUV
In a commercial for the Toyota Highlander SUV, a tousle-haired preteen mocks his classmate Billy, whose dad picks him up from school in a wood-panelled Buick Roadmaster station wagon. “That’s what utter humiliation looks like,” the kid scoffs as Billy hides from his dad. “This Highlander is so cool, I actually want to be seen in it.”
The commercial seems to have backfired. In portraying itself as the “cool” choice, Toyota has reinforced how boring its vehicles can be—car enthusiasts love old station wagons, not hybrids, and the Buick Roadmaster is a cult classic. (Auto blog Jalopnik posted an updated version of the commercial that makes Billy’s station wagon look like the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard.) “A Buick Roadmaster is, and always will be, cooler than a beige Highlander,” Matt Hardigree writes on Jalopnik. Among the many reasons, he notes, “It’s not a Toyota.”
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100-million-year-old crocodile fossil discovered
By macleans.ca - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 12:12 PM - 2 Comments
Fossil found in Thailand is of previously unknown species
Researchers revealed on Thursday that a new species of crocodile was discovered from a fossil in Thailand. In a study published in the journal of the Geological Society of London, the scientists say the 100-million-year-old croc had longer legs than modern-day crocodiles, fed on fish, and could run very fast.
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South Korean defense minister steps down
By macleans.ca - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 12:08 PM - 0 Comments
Resignation comes amid criticism over response to North Korean artillery attack
South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young resigned Thursday in the wake of North Korea’s artillery attack on an island at the centre of a dispute between the two countries. Critics have lambasted the South Korean administration for not being prepared for the attack and for responding too slowly. Meanwhile, South Korea is sending in more troops to the island. North Korea’s attack was the first on civilian-inhabited land, and has led some to fear that war is imminent between the two neighbours.
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On a deadly trail
By Tom Henheffer - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM - 3 Comments
Caribou are disappearing at an alarming rate. But some think they know how to save them.
Valerie Courtois/Canadian Boreal
For years, First Nations groups and scientists have been warning about the decline of caribou. Now, with some herds wiped out completely and others suffering declines of up to 97 per cent since the 1980s, governments and resource companies are finally taking note.
The threat to caribou was an especially hot topic last month in Winnipeg at the 13th annual North American Caribou Workshop, normally a low-key event dominated by scientists and researchers. First Nations—asked to consult based on their millennia-long relationship with the animal—made up more then half of the participants, and the workshop attracted representatives from the governments of Greenland, Russia, the Canadian Prairies and territories, and major natural resource companies including AbitibiBowater. Avrim Lazar, president and CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada, the trade organization that represents forestry companies, says many of those in the industry are starting to plan developments around caribou.
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Danny Williams announces retirement
By macleans.ca - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 11:41 AM - 8 Comments
‘If you want a happy ending, you need to know when to end your story’
Danny Williams, the premier of Newfoundland since 2003, will retire from politics on December 3rd. Williams made the announcement following the completion of what is widely regarded as his legacy project, the signing of a deal between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to develop Labrador’s Lower Churchill hydroelectric project. “I was quite prepared to stay on for another term if some of my greatest challenges still lay ahead of me, but with the completion of the Lower Churchill deal, it is time for new leadership and new ideas within the PC Party of Newfoundland and Labrador,” he said. Deputy Premier Kathy Dunderdale will take over as acting premier, with a leadership convention scheduled for next next spring in the lead up to the 2011 fall election.
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A man in uniform
By Erica Alini, Josh Dehaas - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 11:40 AM - 0 Comments
William hasn’t got his military duds dirty yet, but they still matter—and will on the big day
Fame Pictures/ Anwar Hussein/Wire Image/Getty Images
He may be facing “the ultimate dilemma of modern masculinity,” as the Daily Telegraph refers to his balding pate, but when it’s time to say “I do,” William will still look like prince charming—courtesy of the RAF wings and the military uniform Kate Middleton says makes him look “so sexy.”
Though Kate’s wedding dress will be the subject of acres of debate and speculation among the fashion pundits, William’s own wedding suit is almost certain to be a military uniform, the customary attire for British royals who have served in the military. William has been in all three branches of the armed forces—the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force—as tradition demands of future monarchs who will one day inherit the throne and with it the responsibility of heading the military. But for all the uniform-related photo ops and headlines, the prince’s military deeds can’t yet be called heroic in the traditional sense. Even though he’s chosen the most dangerous job available to him—search-and-rescue helicopter pilot—he’ll never face enemy fire.
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Shopping goes XXS
By Jason Kirby - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 11:40 AM - 0 Comments
Retailers are experimenting with a new way to earn outsized profits
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Megamalls, superstores, big box—for years retail has been dominated by the mantra that bigger is better. But some retailers are experimenting with a new way to earn outsized profits: smaller stores. Several U.S. chains have begun shrinking the floor space and amount of inventory in their stores, and shoppers appear to love it. In one case, the clothing chain Anchor Blue has put in walls to shrink some of its stores by half. The result has been a 23 per cent increase in sales, despite fewer clothing options. Meanwhile, Bloomingdales’ new store in Santa Monica is just one-eighth the size of its Manhattan flagship location.
There are two benefits to the strategy, Paco Underhill, a retail consultant, told the New York Times. Smaller stores keep costs down by reducing rents and culling inventory levels. More importantly, given fewer choices, customers actually tend to buy more. “We have reached the apogee of the big box,” says Underhill.
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Danny Williams: a political persona built in boom times
By John Geddes - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 11:35 AM - 80 Comments
To hear Danny Williams tell the tale in his resignation speech a little while ago, you’d think the economic rise of Newfoundland and Labrador has been propelled by his own pride and a province-wide determination not to be held down any longer.Not to detract from the spirit of place, but it doesn’t hurt to be riding an oil boom. These handy figures come from our friends at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers: the province collected $1.8 billion in offshore oil royalties in 2009-10; an impressive 31 per cent of all Newfoundland and Labrador’s revenues comes from the oil and gas business.
Williams was first elected premier in 2003, six years after start up of the Hibernia oil field, a year after Terra Nova’s production began, and two years before White Rose’s start up. It’s been boom times all the way.
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U.S. ambassador says leaks could hurt relations with Canada
By macleans.ca - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM - 48 Comments
Wikileaks trove of diplomatic cables said to include millions of documents
David Jacobson, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, has phoned minister of foreign affairs Lawrence Cannon to warn him about an upcoming release of sensitive diplomatic documents by the website WikiLeaks. The secret-spreading organization says its next leak, expected to be released within a few days, will be seven times larger then the 400,000 government reports—dubbed the Iraq War Logs—it unveiled in October. No details on the content of the documents have been released, but spokespeople for the U.S. government say they’re expected to erode trust between the country and its economic partners. “These revelations are harmful to the United States and our interests,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said. “They are going to create tension in relationships between our diplomats and our friends around the world.”
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History lesson
By Aaron Wherry - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 10:54 AM - 153 Comments
Stephane Dion has some questions about our mission in Afghanistan.
He expressed concern that some trained Afghan army members don’t stay long, some defect to the Taliban and “they don’t want really to fight” the insurgency. ”After all, we are speaking about people that have been able to win against the Soviet Union,” he said. “If they were willing to win against the Taliban they would not need so much training … How come those people who won against the Soviet Union need training?”
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The coffee shop hackers
By Cameron Ainsworth-Vincze - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 10:40 AM - 2 Comments
Going online in a public place is becoming increasingly risky
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Enjoying free Internet access in a public place is a luxury many Canadians take for granted. Coffee shops, for instance, are famous for providing free WiFi hookups, enabling patrons to check their email and browse social networks like Facebook. Yet going online in a public place is becoming increasingly risky, as a new type of tech trickery is being employed by criminals to access your private information, and even hijack your online persona.
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Merit: the best and only way to decide who gets into university
By macleans.ca - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 10:30 AM - 624 Comments
We find the trend toward race-based admissions policies in some U.S. schools to be deplorable
Photograph by Colin O'Connor
Maclean’s annual University Rankings issue is our most popular and most discussed magazine of the year. The 2010 edition, released two weeks ago, was no exception. Alongside our comprehensive rankings of Canadian schools, we also tackled the biggest issues facing today’s university students. There were stories dealing with school stress, problem roommates, difficult school choices and sex. And when students told us race is becoming a conversation on Canadian campuses, we took a closer look at that as well.
Our reporters Stephanie Findlay and Nicholas Köhler spoke to university students, professors and administrators about campus racial balance and its implications. The resulting story was titled: ”‘Too Asian?’: a term used in the U.S. to talk about racial imbalance at Ivy League schools is now being whispered on Canadian campuses—by everyone but the students themselves, who speak out loud and clear.”
The article has generated a great deal of response, a representative sample of which is included in this week’s Letters (page six). Some of the comments we have seen on the Internet and in other media have suggested that by publishing this article, Maclean’s views Canadian universities as “Too Asian,” or that we hold a negative view of Asian students.
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The call of the aisle
By Julia Belluz - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 10:20 AM - 0 Comments
Will and Kate will likely follow in family footsteps, wherever they choose to tie the knot
Adrian Dennis/WPA/Getty Images, Andy Williams/Zuma/Keystone Press, Dan Kitwood/Getty Images | Charles and Di chose St. Paul’s Cathedral; generations of Windsors have said ‘I do’ at Westminster Abbey or St. George’s Chapel
When you’re the future king of Britain, and your options for a wedding venue are haunted by a minefield of failed family marriages, choosing a church is no simple task. Following the announcement by Prince William and Kate Middleton that their nuptials will “take place in London” next year, betting began on the site of the royal ceremony.
The historic central London venues, Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral, came in as favourites. The latter, a baroque cathedral inspired by St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, is steeped in enough British history to befit a future sovereign. It was the site of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, and the 80th and 100th birthdays of the queen mother. On a practical note, the dome-topped church is known for its excellent acoustics and dramatically long procession route.
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Lucky number eight
By Colby Cosh - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 9:40 AM - 13 Comments
In Vancouver, the right digits in your address can have a big impact on the value of your home
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The name for the number four sounds like “death” in Mandarin, Cantonese and other Chinese dialects. It’s considered so unlucky in Chinese culture that in October, Beijing’s vehicle licensing authority removed it completely from automobile licence plates. Meanwhile, eight sounds like “fortune” and is highly prized; in Guangdong province, licence plate A8888Q recently sold for almost $200,000. These beliefs may seem like interesting quirks, but if you’re holding real estate in a Canadian neighbourhood that has experienced a Chinese influx in recent decades, they are no laughing matter: your address could cost you or earn you extra thousands of dollars.
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Do you know what your kids are up to?
By macleans.ca - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 9:40 AM - 1 Comment
What you’re thinking
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British Columbia: Only 33 per cent of British Columbians with teenagers at home say they are “very aware” of what goes on in their children’s social lives. In every other region, roughly half of parents say they know what their kids are up to, except Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where more than six in 10 say they are well aware.
Alberta: The Supreme Court recently ruled that although suspects have a right to consult a lawyer, they don’t have the right to legal counsel during police interrogations. Albertans—72 per cent of them—overwhelmingly disagreed with the court’s decision. In Quebec, only 44 per cent thought the court was wrong.
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A great and important moment for Canada as well
By macleans.ca - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 9:40 AM - 1 Comment
British Prime Minister David Cameron called the engagement between William and Kate “a great day for the country.”
Stephen Lock/Rex Features/CP
It was surely one of the best-kept secrets in the modern history of British royalty. Prince William proposed to his long-time girlfriend while on vacation in Kenya last month, but the news only came to light this week in an official announcement by his father, Prince Charles. The wedding between Prince William, second-in-line to the British throne, and his fiancée, Kate Middleton, will take place in the spring or summer of 2011.
Royal weddings are significant signposts in history. And this one is no exception. British Prime Minister David Cameron called the engagement between William and Kate “a great day for the country.” It should be considered a great and important day for Canada as well.
Queen Elizabeth II has been Canada’s head of state since 1952. Governor General David Johnston, recall, is merely her representative in this country. While such an arrangement strikes some as antiquated or unnecessary, it has proven to be a great benefit to this country. Her Majesty’s presence, both substantive and symbolic, provides political stability and reliability, and is an important reminder of our antecedents. Besides, popular approval of this system is always in ample supply, as witnessed by the outpouring of affection during the Queen’s well-received tour of Canada earlier this year.
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Viewer discretion advised
By Aaron Wherry - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 9:35 AM - 10 Comments
A professor regrets advising his students to watch this week’s pension debate.
Given he is teaching a third-year course on retirement and pensions and had recently weighed in with a call for a higher retirement age, Prof. Hering asked his students to watch the exchanges live on CPAC, the Parliamentary channel. “Since the level of debate was so disappointing, I felt bad that I asked them to watch it,” said Prof. Hering…
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The business of marriage
By Jason Kirby and Chris Sorensen - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 9:20 AM - 3 Comments
A lavish royal wedding could boost the British economy—and in an age of austerity, outrage taxpayers
Jeff Moore/Keystone Press, Reuters
No sooner had the royal engagement been announced on Tuesday than Steven Jackson’s phone in Nottinghamshire began to ring. When it comes to memorabilia about the royals, Jackson, the 70-year-old secretary of the Commemorative Collectors Society, knows more than perhaps anybody about the assorted cups, plates, vases, scarves, jigsaw puzzles and souvenir books that manufacturers invariably crank out whenever royals get hitched. Now those companies are eager to know what Charles and Diana memorabilia sold best before, and which William and Kate designs will be most successful now. At stake: a potential windfall worth billions of dollars. Royal weddings may be public celebrations, but there’s no denying they are also economies unto themselves.
In 1981, Charles and Diana’s marriage gave Britain a badly needed economic lift amid a punishing recession. It generated vast sums in souvenir sales and hotel bills, and proved a ratings bonanza. Now many industries appear to be counting on a repeat performance, with hopes that next year’s big event will provide yet another boost for an ailing economy. But while anticipation is building, the fact is the royal wedding will happen in a very different environment. The royals are not the draw they once were, and with Britain reeling from austerity measures, resentment against a lavish royal party is a real risk. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean there isn’t money to be made.
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Bestsellers
By Brian Bethune - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 9:00 AM - 0 Comments
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of November 22nd, 2010)
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of November 22nd, 2010)
Fiction
1 OUR KIND OF TRAITOR
by John le Carré4 (6) 2 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS’ NEST
by Stieg Larsson2 (27) 3 FALL OF GIANTS
by Ken Follett10 (8) 4 ROOM
by Emma Donoghue3 (12) 5 ZERO HISTORY
by William Gibson8 (4) 6 ANNABEL
by Kathleen Winter1 (6) 7 FREEDOM
by Jonathan Franzen6 (13) 8 BEDTIME STORY
by Robert Wiersema7 (2) 9 LUKA AND THE FIRE OF LIFE
by Salman Rushdie(1) 10 THE CONFESSION
by John Grisham5 (2) Non-fiction
1 CHANGING MY MIND
by Margaret Trudeau2 (6) 2 LIFE
by Keith Richards1 (4) 3 GOLD DIGGERS
by Charlotte Gray3 (9) 4 MUST YOU GO?
by Antonia Fraser5 (2) 5 DEATH OF THE LIBERAL CLASS
by Chris Hedges4 (3) 6 THEY FIGHT LIKE SOLDIERS, THEY DIE LIKE CHILDREN
by Roméo Dallaire7 (4) 7 MORDECAI
by Charles Foran8 (4) 8 THE PAPER GARDEN
by Molly Peacock6 (2) 9 DECISION POINTS
by George W. Bush(1) 10 CHOCOLATE WARS
by Deborah Cadbury(1) LAST WEEK (WEEKS ON LIST)
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Taking on Hugo Chávez
By Stephanie Findlay - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 8:40 AM - 3 Comments
Gov. Henri Falcón may be the opposition’s great hope in the 2012 presidential election
Incensed, Chávez has called the governor a ‘traitor’ | Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Henri Falcón, the governor of Venezuela’s western state of Lara, is picking up momentum. His name is being tossed around by analysts as a potential candidate to run against Hugo Chávez in the 2012 presidential elections. And with the failure of Chávez’s United Socialist Party to reach a two-thirds majority in the national assembly elections held this September, the opposition, including Fatherland for All, of which Falcón is a member, is strengthening.
Elected governor of Lara in 2008, and a former mayor of the state’s capital city of Barquisimeto—he was elected twice, in 2000 and 2004—Falcón joined Chávez’s party in 2007, but broke ranks this February to join Fatherland for All. In his open resignation letter to Chávez, Falcón wrote that the president’s party was permeated by “bureaucracy, an absence of discussion, clientelism, factionalism, and a badly understood concept of loyalty.” In response, Chávez’s party has accused Falcón of colluding with the opposition and business groups in Lara. “He’s a traitor—let the people from Lara know it,” said Chávez on his weekly television show in March. “I know it, maybe like Christ knew that Judas was the traitor.”
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'Something very special'
By Cathy Gulli - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 8:20 AM - 0 Comments
Their long courtship provoked ridicule. But William and Kate were friends first. They test drove marriage. And he gave her plenty of time to back out.
David Davies/PA; Michael Dunlea/Daily Mail; UK Press/Keystone Press
There was nothing stately or demure about Kate Middleton that night in March 2002. Barely clothed, the lithe brunette sashayed down a dimly lit catwalk toward Prince William, who—sporting a wide grin and dark suit—appeared every bit an aristocratic frat boy. Having secured himself a front-row seat at the charity fashion show for $450, William now saw Kate, heretofore his friendly roommate, in a whole new way: stone-faced. Sexy. Hand on hip. Her straight hair twirled into tight ringlets and laced with yellow ribbons. And wearing nothing but a black band across her breasts, a bikini bottom, and—in the spirit of peekaboo flirting—a sheer, turquoise-trimmed wrap around her long torso. That’s when, it’s been said, William first saw in her his future queen consort.
That image, of course, couldn’t be more different from recent pictures of the newly engaged couple at St. James’s Palace on the day their forthcoming nuptials were announced in a 104-word press release by Clarence House, the Prince of Wales’s private residence. Arm in arm, William and Kate, both 28, stood and smiled elegantly for the requisite “photocall” to appease the press and the public’s increasingly voracious interest in their relationship status. Her royal blue dress—discreet yet celebratory—perfectly complemented the giant sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring that William gave her after proposing during a 10-day safari in Kenya in October. It had belonged to his late mother Diana.
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First class secrets
By Chris Sorensen - Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 8:00 AM - 1 Comment
Inside one airline’s quest to build the world’s most luxurious plane
Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images
When it comes to the rarified world of first class flying, the global airline industry has historically engaged in an arms race measured in centimetres. Who offers the widest seat? The most reclined? Whose personal TV screens are the biggest? But Lars Kroeplin, a Lufthansa executive who headed up cabin development of the airline’s flagship Airbus A380 double-decker planes, says the German carrier decided to jettison conventional wisdom during a recent overhaul of its first class offerings, which cater mainly to high-powered CEOs and celebrities—basically anyone who can afford to pay in the neighbourhood of US$10,000 for a one-way ticket.
So while competitors are touting personal “suites,” Lufthansa surprised many by giving the A380’s first class cabin a more conventional layout. Lufthansa’s “lie-flat” seats are still arranged in pairs down the middle of the plane, and only a movable privacy screen separates passengers. The idea was to give the cabin an open, airy atmosphere, which is reinforced by a lack of overhead bins. “In some airlines, they try to build a suite with a wall that’s as high as possible,” says Kroeplin, who recently took over the job as Lufthansa’s regional director for Canada. “But our surveys of passengers told us they didn’t want to be completely concealed for the full eight to 10 hours.”
