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June 15, 2012

If you come on like a dream.

The 1993 song "Remedy" by The Black Crowes is one of the ten best chancery songs ever cut.

If I come on like a dream?
Would you let me show you what I mean?

Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)

Cross-Culture: A Dutchman born in Columbia marvels about--and explains--the post-colonial ethnic salad bowl that is Panama.

I've worked in Panama only twice--and I'd love to go back. Once spending a week there I was, like others, amazed by its legions of banks, the range of going businesses, the contrasts, the over-importance of the Canal to its economic health, the frustrations of working there, the problems with finding decent local business lawyers to work with and the daunting and king-hell blend of tribes from all over the world throughout its strange and meandering history. It is still a post-colonial ethnic salad bowl. At R.D. Lewis's fascinating Cross-Culture Maarten Stal writes this week on "Panama: A Country in Transition". In particular, note what consultant Stal has to say about Panama's history, the primacy of Canal Zone and the joys and challenges for the many ex-pats now working in a country with its human origins in "native Indians, conquistadores, blacks, Chinese, French, Americans, Arabs, Jews and a variety of other (mostly European) nationalities".

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Panama City, Panama

Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)