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...longer crosses the street to feed the monkeys. These days he is almost never seen outside. His house, which lies just over a grassy hillside from Islamabad's King Faisal Mosque, is modern, squat and dark, its façade concealed behind a vine-covered wall. To the casual observer, the house provides just one clue to its owner's sinister profession. At the end of his driveway sits a large jasmine bush, trimmed into an odd but unmistakable shape: that of a mushroom cloud...
...something American businesses are just beginning to understand," says Jacqueline Whitmore, director of the Protocol School of Palm Beach, Fla., who has seen her business triple in the past three years. Faux pas often begin, etiquette experts say, with an overly familiar, laid-back style in locales where "business casual" is an oxymoron and first names are reserved for family and close friends. Polo shirts aside, the minefields are everywhere: skipping tea drinking in Asia, for example, and forsaking small talk to rush headlong into negotiations. In some parts of Asia and the Middle East, guests should never clean their...
SARGENT: We started with customers and said, "What's important to you?" They told us we weren't terribly differentiated. OfficeMax, Office Depot, Staples--all the same thing, same products, same prices, same service. We heard loud and clear that we had drifted more toward a casual consumer approach rather than our core, which was small business. We heard that our service was just O.K. and that maybe price wasn't as important as it used...
...still developing its own approach to wine. "We aren't France, with its cafés where you hang out and sip wine. Nor do we like the rather pedantic British approach to wine, with its superior manner of discussing vintages." Instead, she says, Americans are seeking a more casual relationship with wine drinking, something she hopes to encourage in her 13-part TV show, Wine, Food & Friends...
...that he’s both an extremely accomplished (did I mention famous?) practitioner in his own right and an excellent teacher; he’s the guy everyone wants to study with. And the buzz among the faculty seems to be equally positive, at least if the casual comments made by other professors to their students—not to mention the smug looks and smiling faces of the faculty members in attendance on Friday night—are any indication...