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...lack of tea, cigarettes and sleep. If she is a woman then most probably she will be totally distracted by how she will manage to brave the traffic to pick up her children from school and have the warm iftar meal ready by 6 p.m., when the daily fast ends. She will usually skip work early. Banks also work shorter hours and are not open again for business after Iftar. In some countries like Saudi Arabia, offices close down completely during prayer - around half-an-hour five times a day - so good timing becomes of critical importance. In bustling Cairo...
...disappoint. With the play moving quickly from end to end, the game included 35 total shots between the two teams, 16 of which were on target. With the score tied at 1 at the end of regulation, the two teams went into sudden-death extra time. The fast pace of play left both sets of players tired heading into the additional frames. The match did not go on for too much longer, though, as in the fourth minute of overtime the Bulldogs’ Maggie Westfal took a centering pass from Kate Macauley and fired the ball past sophomore goalkeeper...
...screen versions of Miami Vice. The Mann style is everywhere evident: in the prowling camera and elliptical editing, the pile-driving music (a surprisingly formulaic score by Denny Elfman), the gigantic, pore-probing closeups of the actors' faces, the vigorous ersatz-realism. Everything moves so much and so fast that the movie seems both gutsy and brainy. But the main strategy is to keep viewers' pulses racing so they concentrate on the action, not the message...
...That means going global. Chrysler is particularly looking to sell cars in fast-growing developing markets, notably China and Russia. But it also expects to increase sales in mature markets, including Western Europe and Japan. In Europe, for instance, it's adding 100 new dealerships to aid that effort. Chrysler executives say their minimum goal is to double foreign sales to 400,000 cars within five years. That's an achievable target, according to Jeremy Anwyl, chief executive of auto research website edmunds.com. "They're looking to double from a low base, so they're giving themselves a little wiggle...
...Dutch parliament now has the power to force a popular vote by turning against the national cabinet’s decision, just like it did some years ago with the constitutional vote. The legislative body should learn from its past slip, bypassing needless popular consults and fast-tracking approval. Because, considering all implications, the outcome is paradoxically more democratic without popular consultation...