Among the most gilded are the Peninsula, which serves a glorious afternoon tea in its lobby near the waterfront in Kowloon, and the Mandarin Oriental, which holds court in a slightly faded building in Hong Kong's Central district.
Unsurprisingly, in 2003 New Oriental was taken to court in Beijing by various U.S. publishing houses for breach of copyright and ordered to pay $774,000 in damages.
For these two, the personal can never be untangled from the political since every move they make is overshadowed by the threat of Rome – literally, in Peter McKintosh's soaring set with its towering stone walls, iron girders, glass walls and overhanging gantry looming above and around the glittering oriental lamps and sumptuous fabrics of the Egyptian court.
In the latter case, the court ruled that Baijia's Wenzhou Oriental Maternity Hospital had likely falsified medical records and acted to conceal its responsibility.
This weekend: Oriental Pavilion, Prospect Park, Brooklyn (tomorrow at 2 p.m).; Sobel Court and Bowen Street, Staten Island (Sunday at 2 p.m). Information: (212) 212-1109.
The echoes of Asia Minor from "Antar," his early symphony with an Oriental fairy tale, promise just the right tone for the Egyptian court.
Investors have brushed aside a copyright infringement and testing fraud case that occurred early last year when New Oriental was fined $774,000 and required to make a public apology after the highest court in Beijing ruled in favor of two U.S. graduate study test administration agencies.
Ladies' Oriental Shrine of North America Founded in 1903 in Wheeling, West Virginia, the order has over 16,000 members in 76 Courts across North America.
After earning a bachelor's degree in medieval history from Harvard and diplomas in medieval and modern history from the University of Paris in 1950, he earned a master's (1953) and a doctorate (1955) in Oriental languages and literatures from Princeton, where he wrote a dissertation on the ceremonial art of the Umayyad court.
