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...running at 40% or less of capacity because of a shortage of imported raw materials. Oil revenues are likely to be as low as $12 billion this year, down from $21 billion in 1983. But there is a flourishing black market that enables boutiques on Tehran's fashionable Vali-Asr Avenue to sell designer jeans for $120 a pair. Whisky can be found for $100 a bottle, despite the regime's strict ban on the use of alcohol...
...lunch at the gleaming kabob palace Nayeb, which is where you go in Tehran to see and be seen--while eating lots of grilled meat. The prices had tripled in my absence, and so had the line for a table. As we wait, I chat with a waiter named Vali Joodi, who tells me he wakes up at 5 a.m. each day to commute from the working-class suburb of Shahriar. Four years ago, he asked his girlfriend to marry him. Once he started tallying what they would need for rent, food and a ceremony, however, he realized he didn...
...where the former Gucci designer (and creator of the 2004 Olympic medals) shows her latest wares, including a series of oversized, wafer-thin 18-carat rings. The tiny Petaei-Petaei shop, on 30 Skoufa Street, tel: (30-210) 362 4315, showcases Greece 's newest talents, including Vali Kondidi, whose work with semiprecious stones is breathtaking yet affordable. Outside Kolonaki, Zolotas, on 9 Stadiou Street, tel: (30-210) 331 3320, is famous for the gold work of its team of in-house designers. One of the shop's best sellers is a simple 22-carat necklace that hugs the throat. Leave...
Just before my night at the mansion ended, Cruise pulled me aside and lamented, “Vali, friend, hombre—Thanks for listening tonight. Sometimes, it’s just hard to be critical of Israel’s policies without appearing anti-Semitic...
...gargoyle. But beyond that you know nothing. Did you know that I spent the best summer of my life following Bob Dylan around the country or that I was the first man on the moon? Did you know that I can bench-press 750 pounds? Does nobody care about Vali, the person, anymore? I took fourth in a hot dog-eating contest in seventh grade...