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...compliance with the E.U. directive, foreigners will find the Swiss tax man reaching deeper into their pockets. But for every tax haven that loses its seductive charms, there's another working hard to woo the rich. Dubai, which has been dubbed the Switzerland of the gulf, has spent billions creating zones where foreigners can set up and invest in companies free from corporate tax. And other gulf states like Qatar and Oman are following Dubai's lead by making their own tax regimes more foreigner-friendly...
Although the story is fiction, Chicago is drawn from the two years that Al Aswany spent in the city during the mid-'80s while earning a dentistry degree from the University of Illinois. When he wasn't hitting the books, he would go out into the city - to a gay church, a black-pride organization, the Chicago Symphony - in search of American culture and ideas for a future novel. Nowadays, he could get by happily without his second income, but Al Aswany says he has no intention of giving up his dentistry practice, since filling cavities and performing root canals...
...more comfortable doing business with Benazir Bhutto than other, more local Pakistani politicians such as Nawaz Sharif. She used her many years in exile to address think-tanks, policy makers and academics in the West, her Harvard credentials underlining her perceived reliability. Newspapers the world over spent more time on her privileged education than the specifics of her rule. Harvard would thus do well to realize the way its brand is used in the rest of the world. Bhutto used it to perpetuate a ‘civilizing’ idea, and a starry-eyed myth of democratic leadership that...
Decia B. Goodwin spent the day working the desk at the polling place in Quincy House...
Hussain explains that she had joined the PPP decades ago as a committed believer in the party's manifesto of Bread, Clothing and Shelter for all, but was driven away by internal politicking. She glosses over the time she spent serving the party of General Zia ul Haq, the military leader who overthrew Bhutto's father in 1977, then hanged him two years later. Her time serving under Bhutto's arch-nemesis Sharif is also barely mentioned, nor is her failed 2002 campaign in which she ran on President Pervez Musharraf's party ticket. All her party peregrinations were forgiven...