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...miles from his home in the elegant Mansour district to his office in a dicey part of the city near Tahrir Square. And when he does go to work, he encounters grim suffering he never expected to see. On a recent weekday a woman, swathed head to toe in a black aba, tugs her wailing child up the pitch-black stairs to the clinic. As usual, the electricity is out. She feels her way along the lightless hall until they reach the office, a dim, dingy room with a desk, a sink, a scale and an ancient examination table covered...
...most visitors to Egypt—torn between urgent and exaggerated preservation of tradition and the promise of growth, the schizophrenia of globalization—are Egypt’s glaring contradictions and ironies. It is not uncommon to walk through bazaars and see women covered from head to toe in black, veiled except for their eyes, rifling through gargantuan vats of skimpy thong underwear. It is perfectly acceptable, even normal, for male soldiers to hold hands and kiss one another on the street, machine guns slung casually by their sides. At the same time, though, wives follow their husbands...
...blow it once would have been. One analyst rushed out a report titled "Mel Who?", and the stock barely budged. Just a few years ago, Karmazin was a Wall Street darling, highly prized as a tough, budget-minded operator who could make the free-spending creative forces at Viacom toe the line. But his star faded as Viacom consistently fell short of financial targets...
Wearing a yellow t-shirt, blue jeans, and open-toe Adidas sandals, Zuckerberg sits on a ragged couch in the middle of a messy Kirkland House common room, surrounded by strewn clothes and half-closed boxes...
...negotiation, but all the things that you do have problems that you have to surmount and sometimes you are lucky and find a way to do it fairly rapidly, and sometimes you stub your toe pushing,” he says. “But ultimately you accomplish whatever you are going to accomplish...