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...even more frustrating if that business involves the public sector and government employees. The working day is extremely short - just four hours in some agencies - and if you are dealing with a male employee then he is most likely to be in a snappish, intolerant mood brought on by 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Business During Ramadan | 10/1/2007 | See Source »

...have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who’s told you that we have it.” The audience could only laugh. Bollinger questioning, combined with Ahmadinejad’s utter lack of engagement, sent a strong message to the audience that his world view is not grounded in reality or rationality. While not discourse in the literal sense, Ahmadinejad’s speech spoke volumes.Ahmadinejad’s invitation and Bollinger’s introduction also served to stimulate discourse by Ahmadinejad?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Ahmadinejad at Columbia | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

...power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre [sic].” And perhaps some will wonder whether the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies read their tutorial’s first assigned book themselves, for the concentration seems to rather lack a degree of awe for the common power governing all departments: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri and Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Nasty, Brutish, And Obstinate | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

...Since his party lost control of Congress last year, the President has been criticized on everything from his failed attempt to overhaul immigration laws to the war in Iraq. But the biggest betrayal, in conservatives' eyes, has been the complete lack of fiscal discipline. In editorial after editorial the movement's giants such as Richard Viguerie, William F. Buckley and George Will have all attacked the President's spending and warned the party that they are bleeding grassroots support. Viguerie went so far as to write a book released last year called Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush: A Born-Again Conservative? | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...friends on this were our ostensible allies on the Hill who continually said: 'Please don't take this on, please don't take this on,' including the most conservative members of Congress," the official said. "I have to say that one of the things that shocked me was the lack of courage on entitlement reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush: A Born-Again Conservative? | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

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