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...central point. The Lebanon war, says a Palestinian minister who prefers not to be identified, exposes "Israel's incapacity to absorb the fact that Arabs are no longer just donkey riders." He adds, "Arabs are changing, but Israelis aren't," meaning that Israel must recognize Arabs as equals and seek political solutions rather than military ones...
...sporadic and velvet-gloved implementation of the old codes. Instead of announcing new bans or dispatching morality police onto the streets of Tehran to harass and arrest young people - the crude, classic measures that fomented much anger and discontent - the system is employing more subtle means that seek to make Iranians themselves, instead of uniformed agents of the state, the enforcers...
...stock crash of 2000 and the 9/11 terrorist attacks the following year?prompted the world's central bankers to slash interest rates in an effort to revive economic growth. With returns on savings deposits falling to around 1% (or even lower in Japan), Asia's wealthy were roused to seek alternatives. Today, they tend "to expect a lot more return from their investments" than investors do in other regions, says Shih of UBS. Clive Bannister, the London-based CEO of HSBC Group Private Banking, notes that Asians are more "hands-on" in their investment decisions than the bank's European...
...Iranian establishment is convinced that the United States cannot simply not stomach an Islamic regime in Tehran, and will seek to dislodge it with time, no matter what it may say to the contrary. You can call this paranoia if you like, but it is a fixed perspective held at the highest levels of government; Iran's ayatollahs deeply fear they are a personal target of Washington. Most view normalization and offers of Western incentives as poisoned carrots designed to open up the Islamic Republic at the seams. These fears existed under the Clinton administration as well, for the very...
...social manners that can be defined to make Iranians sound exquisitely polite or deceitful, depending on the point you're trying to make. At heart, it is a form of etiquette intended to harmonize social encounters, and involves displays of flattery and deference. Taarof does not seek to mask the truth, it simply rests on the belief that life is more pleasant when you do not needlessly inform every jerk you meet that he is indeed a jerk. What does this mean in practice? Say you go to meet the deputy foreign minister. You may not be certain...