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After spending more than two years researching my book Twilight in the Desert, I am convinced that it is highly improbable that Middle Eastern oil--and particularly Saudi Arabian oil--can grow to those far higher levels. Instead there is a risk that Saudi Arabia's oil output and the rest of the Middle East's oil supply may start to decline...
When terrorists kill hundreds of Americans in a Saudi Arabian compound, an élite team of fbi agents led by Jamie Foxx flies in to collar the perps. Director Peter Berg cannily hypes the tension and the sentiment in the only one of the current Middle East political movies designed to appeal to the action crowd. Hard truths are absorbed while stuff blows...
...afield, ancient holy towns like Ajmer and Pushkar afford winding urban explorations and peaceful lake views with fewer touts and tourists in the way. The golden city of Jaisalmer, with its Persian-inspired villas and trains of camel caravans, rises out of the desert like a hallucination from The Arabian Nights. Some of India's last remaining great tigers prowl the forests of Ranthambore, while the airy hill station at Mount Abu abounds with shrines and scenic views. Then there is the stunning, 15th century temple complex at Ranakpur, a majestic pile of shining white marble nestled in the wild...
...estate sold roughly 500 pieces to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The result is "Poiret: King of Fashion," which runs at the Met's Costume Institute until Aug. 5. Fifty ensembles showcase Poiret's eclectic exoticism. Harem pants worn by his wife, Denise, at his legendary Arabian-themed Thousand and Second Night party in 1911 are displayed with the Hellenic evening gown worn by dancer Isadora Duncan to his Bacchus party in 1912. Denise, whose lithe body was perfect for his creations, was his muse. The couple divorced in 1928, but she had the foresight to stow...
...behind Woolmer's murder. "Where there is gambling, there is money," he says, "and where there is money, there is murder." Using cell-phone numbers that they discard daily, and a series of codes when speaking to avoid police detection, bookies in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Karachi and across the Arabian Sea in Dubai pull in hundreds of millions of dollars on scheduled series of big matches, and might have been keen to shut Woolmer up if he threatened their gold mine...