Strategic debate in Berlin has yet to reach the level of, say, Paris or London.
Sometimes Rafter can even honor a request to stay in the exact same room where Paris or Britney had a romp.
It has transformed London's food: a city once famous for its inedible cuisine now has better restaurants than Paris or Rome.
Yet her haplessly obscure corner of the planet becomes as central to our common existence as a street in Paris or New York.
British Airways will also launch a new business-only airline following the deal between either Paris or Brussels and New York's JFK airport this summer.
For us, giving up 2, 500 square feet of gracious California living for a 500-square-foot apartment in Paris or Istanbul is more than a fair trade-off.
Then I started hearing about people like myself, young and not very young scholars, allowed to travel to Paris or London for a scientific meeting.
Art world mainstays agree: Hong Kong still has a long way to go before it can be seen as a hub on par with New York, Paris or London.
The worry in Europe is that this danger may be less obvious to the administration in Washington than it is to onlookers in London, Paris or Berlin.
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When politicians in Paris or Jakarta thunder about Anglo-Saxons, they are referring not to gunboats but to George Soros, Rupert Murdoch and the visigoths of the Internet.
That said, most of Cairo and its sprawling metropolis, its millions of inhabitants, its pollution and epic traffic chaos neither looks nor feels anything like Paris or London.
For one night only, stylish suits and daring dresses which would not have looked out of place on the catwalks of Paris or Milan were being modelled by Merthyr girls.
After all, runs the argument, you can take in a fake Paris or Venice after clearing the tables in Vegas, but you cannot then go and roast on a real beach.
He said a decision to expand Stansted before Heathrow "would undermine Heathrow's position quite significantly" and potentially force travelers to take flights from other European cities such as Paris or Amsterdam.
Hungary, for example, is likely to switch over to the euro within the next five years, meaning the cost of a visit to Budapest could soon approach the cost of a trip to Paris or London.
Over the years London built on that opportunity by welcoming foreign market-makers (the Big Bang reform of 1986) and by offering a regulatory structure that seemed more appealing than those on offer in Paris or Frankfurt.
However, due to the lack of skilled craftsmen in Cuba, where African slaves made up the bulk of the labour force, Cuban Baroque became a simplified version of European Baroque, with a more streamlined and muscular profile than Paris or Vienna.
If you want to eat the finest haute French cuisine (or most other foods) you will undoubtedly find it as a restaurant, either a Michelin 3-Star gastronomic temple in Paris or Lyon or a place Joel Robuchon in Las Vegas.
The clothes that do get made in commercial quantities and reach us in the stores may have touches here and there--a color, a collar, a line of cut--that descend from a runway presentation in Milan or Paris or New York several years before.
But while the city that embraced the rule-breaking Bauhaus movement may have found a new role as the unofficial art capital of Europe, it's nothing like Paris or New York: No one teeters around its cobblestone streets in high heels, no one asks what anyone else does for a living or how much they make doing it.
They can also plan private yacht or helicopter rides along the Seine River, book Paris market or antique tours or for 75 euros an hour will run errands and purchase gifts for those guests who'd rather spend their Parisian hours being tourists.
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The 15-year-old travel agency generally caters to the Las Vegas crowd looking to mimic the expeditions of say, Paris Hilton or Britney Spears.
"If you are not in LA, London, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, or Berlin, forget it, " Efe Cakarel told CNN over the phone from Palo Alto, California.
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No-one in Paris - or any other Western capital - wants parts of Mali to become like Afghanistan in the 1990s - a place where acts of terror further afield could be planned and where people would then ask why something was not done earlier.
Being a figurative odd man out did not help him in New York or Paris in the 1960s, when abstraction or pop were what sold.
Mr. KABAKOFF: What we imagined was that if we could look like a Prague or a Paris where you can walk 50 or a hundred blocks and have an interesting experience the whole time.
Heads of departments at the best universities, such as Toulouse 1, Grenoble 1 or Paris-Dauphine, waste time bending the rules to lure the professors and students they want, or to raise private finance.
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"What this means is that if you have a cement factory in three or four countries, you may have to travel from country A to country B via Paris, London or Dubai rather than direct, " says Peaford, editor-in-chief of Arabian Aerospace magazine and online news service.
Curiously, it has offices in Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, but not yet in Frankfurt or Paris.
Unsurprisingly, flights to America from Paris, Frankfurt or Amsterdam are often cheaper than from London's Heathrow.
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