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...happy, he has deep-fried mayonnaise. Dufresne, like most people, came away from his first meeting with Arnold just a little dizzy. "He's probably a little ADD," says Dufresne. "He knows a lot about computers, he absorbs scientific texts, he has a photographic memory, and he's an expert on American hams." Arnold became Dufresne's gadgetry consultant, and before long he was working at the French Culinary Institute, filling the newly created position of director of culinary technology...
...have the power to fix that dysfunction. Fidel's full-blown retirement "really does free Raśl to do a lot more than he could in the provisional role," says Brian Latell, a Cuba expert at the University of Miami and author of After Fidel. "Now I think we'll see significant changes, not just in style but in policy." Bernardo Benes, a Miami banker and prominent Cuban exile who played soccer with Raśl at the University of Havana and was an emissary to Cuba for Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, agrees: "I do expect him to free himself from...
...fees and interest rates for being late, overspending, or overborrowing. The convenience user, one who pays off her balance every month, is a loser. "The credit card industry doesn't really want you to pay off your debt," says Adam J. Levitin, a law professor at Georgetown University and expert in credit card regulatory and competition issues. "It's like a sweat box. They want you in there as long as possible...
Judging by the analysts' predictions, it could be several years. "Prices are going to be significantly higher," says John V. Mitchell, an OPEC expert and associate fellow at Chatham House in London. That realization deepened this week when OPEC's president, Algeria's Oil Minister Chakib Khelil, rebuffed President Bush's appeal for OPEC to boost production and so help avert a U.S. recession by easing oil prices on the world market. Instead Khelil said that production quotas for its 13 members - who supply about 40% of the world's oil - will "either decrease or be stable" when OPEC...
...Barack Obama seemed almost surreal to most of the Islamic delegation. But what was most striking was the overall sense of subdued despair after all the battles and outrages of the Bush years. "The past few years, the Muslims were throwing tables at us," a U.S. Middle East policy expert told me. "Maybe they're just worn...