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...constructed by a king who desired a secluded haven. In the center of the gallery’s floor rests buildings constructed of white clay and covered in salt; their stupa-like shapes suggest mosques and holy buildings that reach towards the sky. In the center is the crown jewel of the structures, a four-stepped platform with a cone-shaped peak rising from...
...Pressure on the Bush administration to intervene more forcefully - and to consider some form of international security presence - will continue to grow in the coming weeks, not least when Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah visits the President's ranch in Crawford next Thursday. Because right now it may take no more than a single suicide bomber in an Israeli city to set off a chain of events that plunges the region into chaos...
...ranks of the men’s rugby team, which director of club sports John Wentzell recently called “the crown jewel” of the club sports program at Harvard, have filled gradually over the year with ex-varsity athletes, mainly from the football, track and crew teams...
...packaged in claims of being otherwise indisposed, although Powell read no negative message into the Egyptian president's begging off. Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is meeting with President Bush Wednesday, and is expected to register Arab disappointment with the administration's peace efforts so far. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah is expected at the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas next week, and the outcome of that encounter will be a crucial indicator of the state of relations between the U.S. and its moderate Arab allies...
Pahlavi's reputation would be sullied if he shared the Shah's famously imperious manner and tastes. (At a 1971 celebration of 2,500 years of the Persian Empire, an entire ton of Iranian caviar was consumed.) So far, the Crown Prince has avoided being tainted with the family reputation. He drives a Jeep, wears a black plastic watch and says he plans to give up caviar. He can come across as a sort of Al Gore--earnest, consciously cerebral, techie. If the prospect of an Iranian Gore sounds grim, consider the alternatives--either before 1979 or after...