Paris, that most presentable of capitals, is being polished before it hosts the Summer Games. Around the Champs-Élysées, where some of the benches date to the 1850s, the seats are getting a new layer of paint before an estimated 15 million visitors arrive to scuff them up again.
The emails arrive late, often after 1 a.m., tapped out on a secure BlackBerry from an email address known only to a few. The weary recipients know that once again, the boss has not yet gone to bed. The late-night interruptions from President Obama might be sharply worded questions about memos he has read. Sometimes they are taunts because the recipient’s sports team just lost.
. . . and just in time for the weekend, these extravagantly stunning gold creations, inspired by the recent olympic...
. . . and while on the topic of gold, if you happened to catch the closing ceremonies for the summer olympics the other night, you would have seen the magic of this editorial literally coming to life — kate in alexander mcqueen and georgia may in victoria beckham, and others, all in beautiful flashes of [olympic] gold . . .