Other highlights of celebrations later will include a tribute to the tin mining days with a bal-maidens' and miners' dance featuring 250 local school children.

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The demographic is more varied--the shops of Bal Harbour, a.k.a.

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At the bottom, hanging like a pendulum, is a picture of Bal Thackeray: a serene, orange-robed guru, grinning.

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What will be the legacy of India's best known right-wing Hindu leader, Bal Thackeray, who died over the weekend?

BBC: The legacy of Bal Thackeray

Hindu fundamentalist politician Bal Thackeray, the founder of the right-wing Shiv Sena party, has died in Mumbai at the age of 86.

BBC: Bal Thackeray, Hindu leader and Shiv Sena founder, dies

Just a short walk from the tourist hoards of Montmartre, Le Bal is a cultural photography centre on an out-of-the-way mews, with a cafe on the ground floor facing out onto a small park.

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These were joined, to sorry effect, on several bills by "Bal de Couture, " a recent creation by company ballet-master-in-chief Peter Martins, which, with its gaudy Valentino costume designs, began life last spring as desperate gala fare and which continues now as program filler.

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The family that owns the chic Bal Harbour Shops near Miami wants a bigger slice of South Florida's luxury-retail market.

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In January, the family of Bal Harbour Shops developer Stanley Whitman purchased a stake in the proposed 500, 000-square-foot retail component of Brickell CityCentre in downtown Miami.

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