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In the third century A.D., the Chinese scholar and musician Ruan Ji began a 60-day drinking binge. Ji got smashed every day to avoid serving in a corrupt government, and wrote music like “Wine Madness,” which in some versions has a final coda...
Inoffensiveness is Ban's outstanding quality. He has spent 36 years as a diplomat, almost all of them outside the spotlight. His peers praise his understated "Confucian approach," as one Chinese expert puts it, but some wonder whether Ban has the steel to play a leading role on the international...
Inoffensiveness is Ban's outstanding quality. He has spent 36 years as a diplomat, almost all of them outside the spotlight. His peers praise his understated "Confucian approach," as one Chinese expert puts it, but some wonder whether Ban has the steel to play a leading role on the international...
A factor in the company's success, explains Khamis' daughter Farida--who, like her sister Yasmine, is a vice president of the firm--is that Oriental Weavers has been globally competitive from the start and has never relented. Khamis shattered industry standards by introducing the world's first 1 million...
Oriental Weavers has been adding capacity at 20% annually since 2003 to meet demand for its value-for-money products. That includes a small weaving facility outside Atlanta to reduce lead times for urgent U.S. orders. Eyeing a huge potential customer base in Asia, the company opened a plant in...