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...Seat The man who has to cure the ill-effects of the casino boom is the man who started it: Edmund Ho, a 53-year-old former accountant who became Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region when it was returned to China by Portugal in 1999. When Ho took over, Macau was economically dormant. The gaming industry was a moribund monopoly controlled by tycoon Stanley Ho (who is unrelated to Edmund). Many residents of nearby Hong Kong stayed away from the city's seedy casinos because they feared they might be caught up in the occasional burst...
...result, bankers and money managers - not traditionally associated with feminist causes - are helping to power the region's slow-burn gender revolution. Investment firms like Merrill Lynch and private banks like the Swiss firm Clariden Leu have targeted Gulf millionairesses, some flying advisers out for teach-ins. Arab banks have also homed in on working women, issuing them credit cards and loans for cars and apartments...
...tapping into this market, it clearly pays to be sensitive to the social and cultural dynamics of the region. But ultimately the key, as with male clients, is to offer financially compelling products. When an investment firm recently asked Dashti how to market its services to women, the meeting was short: "Go back to the ABCs of business," she said. "If you have a good product, women will...
...Authority and the Bush Administration have been willing to engage in this hypothetical peace exercise at all may have had less to do with the state of the conflict than with the political needs of the leaders involved. The Bush Administration is desperate for foreign policy success in a region littered with its failures. President Abbas needs to show that he can deliver through negotiation what his more-popular rivals in Hamas are unable to achieve through violence. As for Olmert, addressing Israelis' long-standing desire to resolve the conflict with their neighbors has helped him stay afloat politically even...
...especially property flippers) and took on more housing debt than they and their salaries could ever afford. "We want folks to be able to hold on to the American dream," says Daniel Rosemond, the Miami Gardens director of community development. "But at the same time, in a low-wage region like South Florida, we have to be realistic about people who, frankly, aren't ready to be homeowners...