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…