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...buyer spot the fakes? We asked two experts - third-generation carpet trader Abdul Tawab and his father, Hajji Sufi Abdul Wahid - for advice. The pair hail from Herat, the center of Afghanistan's carpet business, but moved to the Pakistani capital Islamabad 20 years ago, after fleeing the Afghan-Soviet war. There, Wahid set up the family shop, Herat Carpets, and today father and son stock some of the finest Afghan rugs available. Authentic antique Afghan carpets are increasingly hard to find, says Wahid, and cost many thousands of dollars. A decent alternative is a high-quality...
...doors to them in 1991 as a gesture of reparation. At the time, fewer than 30,000 Jews lived in the country and many of their communities were on the verge of dying out. Since then, nearly 200,000 Jews have arrived, most of them from the former Soviet Union. The majority do not speak German and only half have joined a local synagogue. Even the Jewish community complains of being overrun. But the idea of quotas sticks in the craw. Says Charlotte Knobloch, vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany: "Despite all the difficulties...
...beyond me. The man is an intellectual midget. His presidency has been marked by the full-scale manipulation of reality at all levels. The person responsible for that is political operative Rove, not Bush, who is a bumbling spokesman. To fill the gap left by the disappearance of the Soviet Union, the Administration created a new enemy, terrorism. But achieving that goal has only strengthened U.S. adversaries, especially al-Qaeda. Eventually, reality will come back with a vengeance, but it is the successors to the Bush Administration who will have to deal with it. Peter Van Roy Louvain-la-Neuve...
...would indeed appear to be the case. In an important speech in September to 194 members of the Central Committee that was never made public, Hu set out his stall. According to someone who read a copy, Hu said China would never have its own Gorbachev, referring to the Soviet Union leader whose commitment to openness and reform in the 1980s hastened the end of Communist Party rule there. In the speech, according to the source, Hu railed against people who "fly the banner of democracy and political reform" and said the Party must be "pre-emptive" and "strike when...
...probably wouldn’t wear a t-shirt saying “give me some lebenstraum,” and we would never think of sporting a t-shirt with Hitler’s face on it. This is because we have smugly assured ourselves that the Soviets were somehow very different than their Nazi contemporaries. They were not. And we should remember that when dealing with the inevitable urge to jokingly use Soviet imagery; it is not a laughing matter...