The centers now feature a mostly English Web site, glossy English-language pamphlets, and ads in citywide parenting magazines.
She turned down acting and modelling offers until she finished university, and travelled across Asia presenting a glossy English-language travel show on Indian satellite TV before surviving a six-month audition process to land her Slumdog role.
Reports by the UN and independent human-rights groups suggest that the invaders executed hundreds of Yazidi men and kidnapped as many as 2,000 women and children.Any doubt as to the fate of these captives was dispelled by the latest issue of IS's glossy English-language online magazine, Dabiq.
Obviously the video is partially about glorifying the Islamic State, just as the group has attempted to do with its glossy English-language magazines and Twitter app.
IS is widely recognized for its slick social media presence, which includes well-produced videos and a glossy English-language magazine.
But Khan, a US citizen who wrote about violent jihad and was the founding editor of al Qaeda's glossy English-language magazine Inspire, somehow slipped out of the United States in 2009 and eluded capture.
With the five other foreign-language Oscars bagged by Miramax before 2000, it signalled the rise of the glossy, streamlined foreign-language film – bottled classics with a life-affirming tang and a little twist of another culture.
The glossy, 90-page Japanese-language guide to the series began with several pages of color photos, advertisements and articles about Matsuzaka and Okajima before getting around to players such as Ramírez, Josh Beckett and David Ortiz.
The glossy Lib Dems minority manifesto also addresses language skills, policing and equality at work.
Featuring high-quality production values and art design -- as well as horrific details of various Islamic State operations -- the glossy magazine, available in English and several other languages, tends to make headlines in Western media whenever a new issue appears.
