Clif Burns

Clif Burns

There Will Always Be an England

Devotees of the New Yorker will no doubt remember items that used to be short entries titled “There Will Always Be an England.” A typical item under that heading recounted humorous but true anecdotes of quaint English behavior. You know,…

When Foreign Subs Go Bad

Another day, another foreign subsidiary of a U.S. company caught shipping stuff to Iran. This time it’s the Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Viking, a leading manufacturer of fire protection systems. The fire extinguishing systems were shipped by the sub through the…