At a dinner in New Hampshire, he offered your correspondent his sticky pudding.Many voters find this appealing.
In one café, a spivvy "broker" in a baseball cap offered your correspondent a chunk of shares in an obscure hydro-electric plant for $22,000.The city's leisure industry seems to be taking off too.
THREE years ago, just after the American-led invasion of Iraq, an American sergeant based in the northern city of Kirkuk, then the main focus of ethnic and sectarian competition, offered your correspondent his own interpretation of what was going on.
We spoke with Olivier Blanchard, its chief economist, and finished by asking him how he would revise his macroeconomics textbook in light of the crisisDoing business in Tokyo Our correspondent offers advice to business travellers visiting Japan's capital, arguably the most modern city in the world.
Then, hospitably, he offers your correspondent a bed for the night.Your correspondent elects to stay instead with Walid Abu Marzouq, who lives in a quieter part of Rafah.
In the 5GHz band, one of two available for Wi-Fi in much of the world, a gesture that moves half a metre per second produces a 17Hz Doppler shift, which is readily distinguishable in the lab's monitoring equipment using off-the-shelf MIMO radios.Sidhant Gupta, a graduate student at Dr Patel's Ubiquitous Computing Lab ubicomplabb), offers your correspondent an illustration of how the system works.
OUR correspondent in Paris offers some advice to business travellers visiting the French capital.
Photograph: Helena Smith Our correspondent Helena Smith reports.
In this memorandum Machiavelli (channelled by our correspondent) offers his adviceTo: David Cameron From: Niccolo Machiavelli Date: September 28th 2013In this section Tilting at windmills Easy come, easy go Don't count it out The odd couple Machiavelli's memorandum The dreams of Red Ed ReprintsSIR – I write to you in no little awe.
UN officials will be pressing Syria's neighbours Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which have apparently not offered the UN any money, our correspondent adds.
