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...population kept calling for stronger district administration, police resources and reconstruction. We tried in that in some of the districts of Kandahar on our own. Two and a half years ago you will remember the Taliban were there. [In one place] they destroyed the mosque, they destroyed the bazaar, and they destroyed the district offices. And then the local population came to us and said, Look, we defended the districts for so long, we cannot do it without government help. I said 'What do you want?' They said, Send us 100 men or give us resources...
Nonetheless, more Arab businesses are breaking out of the bazaar, using know-how gained from negotiating the Middle East or simply leveraging the financial power provided by the current oil-revenue bonanza to conquer markets far from home. Whether they sell traditional carpets and inlaid furniture or deal in mega real estate developments and cell-phone services, Arabs are moving their wares across the Middle East and throughout the world. "There is no escaping it," says Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohammed Rachid, a former Unilever executive and a leading Arab voice for globalization. "We have to make...
...says now. “They would tell you I resigned. Whatever, I left.” “When you look back at it now, you see the unbelievably glowing coverage of our wedding in People magazine, and the flashy feature of me in Bazaar magazine,” Welch says, referring to recent articles about her and Jack Welch. “All the beautiful coverage you get now, it’s like it never happened.”And indeed, Welch says that she does not miss her old job. “Winning...
...connected but maybe more lovable books. And the Times project, having only one book on it, isn't even a list - it's not even a pantheon, it's a monotheisum. A library shouldn't be a temple, with one altar to one book. It's a mysterious, winding bazaar, wherein you should be able to wander until you stumble over some dusty, long-neglected wonder that nobody else would have spotted, and take it home with...
...among whom he is now popular. Young Iranians are excited to find a leader who lets them wear baggy jeans and pink veils, and still stands up to what they consider a belligerent U.S. "Our civilization is far superior," says Vahid Mobaraki, 28, a gold merchant in the Tehran bazaar. "We don't need to be bossed around by a country with only 200 years of history...