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• No credit cards, alcohol ... or urinals
While English is the second language on many signs, the squiggly local script looked like Arabic to me. I quickly learned that it's actually Farsi. Iranians are Persian. Persians are not Arabs, and they don't speak Arabic — they speak Farsi. This ...
• The FBI wants you! Agency launches hiring blitz
WASHINGTON - Wanted by the FBI: agents, language specialists, computer experts, intelligence analysts and finance experts. The FBI said Monday has launched one of the largest hiring blitzes in its 100-year history involving 2,100 professional staff ...
• U.N., Red Cross curtail Gaza aid shipments
The Arabs had sought stronger language — calling for a cease-fire rather than stressing the urgency of an immediate truce and calling for an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza. Israeli envoys went to Cairo on Thursday for talks with ...
• Sundance Fest may not be about sales this year
Sony Pictures Classics began negotiating to acquire “Rudo y Cursi,” a Spanish-language film directed by Carlos Cuaron and starring Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, more than a week before its planned Sundance premiere. The new attitudes are ...
• Ann Coulter ‘delighted’ she isn’t banned from NBC
She admitted that she agrees with the sentiment, “but I have much more colorful language.” “We switched you for Tony Blair,” Lauer explained. “The point is, I was canceled twice,” Coulter rejoined, referring to a second scheduled appearance ...