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...That wasn't good enough for the mutawa, the vigilantes who enforce Muslim religious laws against impiety and immodesty. A member of the group accosted her as she was entering a shop, prodded her painfully with a long stick and berated her for neglecting to veil her face. A merchant rushed to her defense and explained that she was an American, part of the international effort to save the country. Barely missing a beat, the morals cop switched into English and continued his harangue more angrily than ever...
...Dyck loved the stuff of the world -- the shimmer and exact texture of fabrics (he was, after all, the son of a silk merchant in Antwerp), the brightness of flesh or the passing melancholy that settles on a face, the layering of vapor and light in the sky, the sheen of armor. In this sense of lavishness he was, of course, very much Titian's heir, and it is wonderful to see how much pictorial interest he could discover in inert substances -- particularly the brocades and velvets worn by his sitters -- in the course of translating them into patches...
...Middle East," says Fawzi al-Sultan, referring to Boston's beltway dotted with high-tech managerial and consulting firms. "We can be the financial brains behind industrial enterprises in the rest of the gulf and in the Arab world at large. As our ancestors were often away as merchant traders, so large numbers of us can be working abroad in Kuwaiti-owned enterprises and for others. But only if we are properly trained...
...stick failed to save him this time. Doctors, lawyers, civil servants and merchant seamen refused to work. Journalists and television actors walked off their jobs. Shops remained shuttered, and curfew-defying protesters took to the streets. Said opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia: "The autocratic Ershad had to surrender to the people's will...
...hasn't been raised in years, and a 5 percent increase shouldn't do much," said one local merchant. "I doubt the increase will affect prices...