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...tread, getting mail across Beirut's green line during the Lebanese civil war and using donkeys to get parcels past Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank. Ghandour got his break when FedEx and later Airborne Express made Aramex their Middle East partner. The U.S. firms gave Aramex invaluable lessons in everything from quality control to technology. When DHL acquired Airborne and dropped Aramex, Ghandour learned another lesson: the turnaround. He got busy marshaling the regional players that Airborne had left in the cold into a new alliance. A leader in the Middle East and South Asia, Ghandour is looking...
...eventually pressured to resign from her job. "If someone is caught jaywalking in front of strangers, they don't feel bad," says Yang Yulin, media officer for the Shanghai Civilization Committee (SCC), the government organization behind the crusade. "But if everyone at the office finds out, they learn a lesson...
...Another prediction that Bombay defied was that it would erupt in riots. It didn't, because Bombay learned an important lesson after the last riots in 1993: they are bad for business. And, as in the rest of India, business in Bombay is booming, because the political foundations for a truly democratic, composite culture have been laid. The fact that the Prime Minister, who gave wings to the golden songbird, wears a turban is proof of this. This country is 82% Hindu, but it's led by a Sikh Prime Minister, a Muslim President and an Italian Catholic woman...
...Byron shouldn’t trust his music to anyone else—a lesson too late to learn for this “Ballad...
...during the open enrollment period. Each state has 40 to 50 different plans to choose from, and each insurance company is required to set up call centers to answer questions about the different plans it offers to help seniors pick the right one for their drug needs. But the lesson seniors should draw from the GAO report is that, whether signing up for the benefit the first time or renewing it, you need to study the plan carefully yourself...