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...academic institutions, and impose repressive Islamic codes that have been ignored here since the late 1990s. Because the Iranian system is composed of ministries with overlapping mandates and multiple security apparatuses that often act upon their own initiative, it is difficult to tell whether these measures signal a government-wide crackdown, or the individual efforts of radical government appointees emboldened by the Islamic conservatism of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
...Zinfandel), as well as a "universal tasting" glass that can be used for any variety (although it handles Sauvignon particularly well). After testing the Kwarx effect, Simon Tam, director of the International Wine Centre in Shanghai, rules: "These glasses deliver an accurate environment for wine appreciation. The calculated, wide glass bulb gives plenty of surface area for the wine to blossom." There's just one drawback: Will Greek or Russian weddings, where wineglasses and other breakables are smashed for luck, ever be the same again...
...Credit Suisse's pretax banking profit in the second quarter of this year was generated by private-banking operations. While retail banks must focus on volume by hawking me-too products to millions of less-wealthy customers, private banks can rack up bountiful revenues by offering a wide range of lucrative services to a smaller number of rich and superrich clients. It's not uncommon for a top private banker to thrive with as few as a dozen clients, who are happy to pay richly for personal guidance on such esoteric matters as, say, reducing taxes, setting...
...country of origin, the countries of transit, and the country of destination," he says. "There is extreme poverty at one end, and a demand for manpower at the other." Virtually all agree that the two keys to solving the problem are for Europe to forge a single, comprehensive continent-wide immigration policy, and for Africa to achieve rapid economic development. And virtually no one expects either one anytime soon...
...inventions that could end the polygraph's long, imperfect run are not yet ready for wide use. Some of them, however, are getting tantalizingly close...