Word: persianism
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...love history," says Meier. "If you can show them 120 years of history, it gives them an enormous level of comfort." Other firms find their own ways to impress, not least with a seductive patina of opulence. A stark, cool modernism pervades Credit Suisse's Singapore office, while the Persian rugs and somber oakwood in Citigroup's office across town convey a reassuring, grandfatherly solidity...
...lately earned another reputation as "the outstanding champion of pollution," according to Mifsud. Factories dump waste water into the port's bays and into Lake Maryut, 1 km from the sea. Egypt's government blames the cargo traffic from the Suez Canal and oil tankers from the Persian Gulf. "We not only have to manage Egypt but the whole world's waste," says Mohammed Borhan, director general of coastal and maritime zone management for the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. Pollution, like overfishing, threatens fish stocks in the Med - and traditional fishing communities. Hundreds of thousands of people around the Mediterranean...
Wakim responded that “during the Persian Gulf War, I served as an active duty infantry officer and, according to the law, that makes me a veteran of the Persian Gulf...
...gets more complicated still. The Iran-Hizballah-Hamas axis is not the only church of Islamism. Enter Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's No. 2, rushing to keep up with the mob, the mob that is now scandalously led by Persian and Shi'ite Iran. On behalf of Sunni and Arab al-Qaeda--just yesterday the champion of all things radically Muslim and anti-Western--al-Zawahiri last week issued a call for all Muslims to rise up against Israel...
...sandwich. "It's our religious duty to aid Muslims who are being killed," says Sedaghat, whose car bears a sticker on the rear window that reads INSURED BY IMAM REZA (Shi'ite Islam's revered figure). "But reality is reality, and we can't afford it." He quotes a Persian proverb: "If the lantern is needed at home, donating it to the mosque is haram [forbidden...