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...this in front of the shopkeeper," says Tawab, "and he will start bringing out his best pieces." Finally, look at the carpet as something you're going to be living with for a long time. Study it in different lighting conditions - take it outside and see how the sun changes its colors, or try out the carpet at home for a few days, which most shops will allow. If they don't, then sleep on the decision and come back the next day. "You are going to have this carpet for the rest of your life," says Tawab. "You shouldn...
...Finally, look at the carpet as something you're going to be living with for a long time. Study it in different lighting conditions?take it outside and see how the sun changes its colors, or try out the carpet at home for a few days, which most shops will allow. If they don't, then sleep on the decision and come back the next day. "You are going to have this carpet for the rest of your life," says Tawab. "You shouldn't buy if you are not in love." Or if you're in any doubt about...
...controversy involves money. The government plans to award the entire project-which could cost up to $6.8 billion-to a single consortium, which would build and then run the cultural facilities for 30 years. Three development groups-including a partnership of Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Holdings and Sun Hung Kai Properties, the city's largest developer-were shortlisted, and last month, their proposals were unveiled at an exhibit replete with detailed models and video simulators. So far, more than 60,000 people have gone to take a look. "At the end of the day, it comes down...
...long treated Abbas, the first P.L.O. member he ever agreed to meet, with a level of respect he never showed Arafat. At peace talks in Wye River, Md., in 1998, Sharon refused to shake Arafat's hand and pointedly ignored him--but he chatted amicably with Abbas on a sun deck there. In 2003, Sharon invited Abbas to Jerusalem and stood alongside him and President George W. Bush at a summit in Aqaba, Jordan. "Their personalities are very similar," says Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. peace negotiator. "They're both very courtly, exceedingly polite and soft-spoken, very measured...
...feel the deepest sadness for American soldiers, who must serve under a Secretary of Defense whose blend of supreme arrogance, utter ignorance and blinding incompetence puts them at such terrible and unnecessary risk. Surely even the most cursory acquaintance with The Art of War, the martial primer by Sun Tzu, would have taught Rumsfeld that if you don't have the army you might want, then you don't go to war. How dare he put the Administration's vendetta ahead of the welfare of his troops. Kenneth J. Wiebe Chilliwack, Canada...