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Jewels of Central Asia: The Discover Kazakhstan Benefit at the New York Public Library

“I’m not dressed like the Kazakh bride,” Sigourney Weaver told The Observer last week.

“I’m wearing Lanvin,” she said in an exaggerated French accent, perhaps a remnant of Fashion Week reverie. Indeed, Ms. Weaver was one of many gowned sophistiquées packed into the main atrium of the Public Library appraising a mannequin clad in traditional Read More

By Sara Vilkomerson 9/18/06 12:00am

A Star Is Borat

Late last Thursday night, the clock ticking toward midnight under a full Canadian moon, a line made up mostly of young men snaked along Toronto’s Gerrard Street. The hipsters in their hoodies, the awkward computer nerds, the beefy frat-boys were there for the Toronto Film Festival’s “midnight madness” North American premiere of Borat: Cultural Learnings Read More

By Jay Newman 3/20/00 12:00am

World Bank Props Up Despots With New ‘Corruption’ Loans

Jim Wolfensohn came out swinging when he took over the World Bank in 1995. As a scion of the New York investment banking establishment and consigliere to the high and mighty, he seemed to have a decent shot at reforming the World Bank’s sclerotic bureaucracy. But when he trained his sights on official corruption, promising Read More