This consumed around £270 a week in wages and the project rapidly fell into arrears, forcing officials to issue leather tokens instead of paying the workforce with normal coinage.
Berlin's openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit, has come under criticism for extending the city's official welcome to a leather and latex fetish street fair that begins Saturday.
Also in Queens, at 2 14 a.m., Jose Cortes, 41, died after two assailants punched him and beat him with a bicycle chain and a leather belt, officials said.
TREASURER'S SAPPHIRE COHORT Complimentary kitchen tour during informal V.I.P. cocktail reception; take-home monogrammed linen table napkin; coat-check fee waived; souvenir leather-bound official event program, with tassel; name in boldface type in official event program; complete set of table cutlery; dinner served warm.
On Monday, Mr. Bremer, Brooks Brothers smart as always, still matching his suit to the desert boots that became his trademark here, allowed himself a smile of satisfaction as he handed Iraqi officials the blue leather-bound folio containing legal documents affirming the transition.
And thus, John Lewis, national peddler of leather sofas and official sponsor of Christmas, remains a mystery to me.
Leather was the official dress code, but not every patron obeyed it: one wears a plastic leopard head, another a beard and an elaborate nun's habit; others wear nothing at all.
Apple already follows this playbook with cases and dongles, charging frankly eye-watering prices for official connectors, replacement cables, fancy leather iPhone cases or battery-equipped variants, for example.
Victorian Foods was selected as the official supplier of Kenyan fish leather, and African fashion designers were asked to create signature pieces inspired by seas and lakes.
To my right, outside the doors, a leather-jacketed security official was slapping and kicking a detainee who was sitting on the ground.
