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...Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has rounded up a few brothers, sons and friends for a weekend game of lawn bowling. Wearing a Bedouin robe and an incongruous pair of striped Adidas running shoes, the ruler--in fact if not in name--of Saudi Arabia hurls a ball down the turf and coaches a TIME correspondent in the finer points of the sport. "Be careful of the topography," he warns, using his palm to illustrate the hazards. "Even a slight grade can send the ball off course...
...that type of wary caution that has typified Saudi rulers since the birth of the kingdom 70 years ago. Until recently, Abdullah was as careful as the rest. These days however, the Crown Prince seems to be disregarding his own advice, throwing the ball off course with deliberation...
...nine Israelis in Jerusalem. Israeli army incursions into two Palestinian refugee camps left 20 Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers dead. Abdullah's initiative prompted the Bush Administration to dispatch CIA chief George Tenet and Middle East special envoy William Burns to Jiddah to take the matter up with the Crown Prince in person. The European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana made the same stop the day before. Every key Arab state except Syria has voiced support for Abdullah's "vision," making the Crown Prince confident he will win official backing at an Arab League summit later this month...
...existence has hardly been a charmed one. I was stripped of my first Miss Teen USA crown after I posed for a series of nude photographs. I tried to argue that the photographs were tastefully done, that they were more art than pornography—I was wearing a bow tie in them. But apparently the Miss Teen USA judges had a problem with the whole having-a-penis thing. My second crown was revoked for the same reason (different set of photographs—this series was set in the Australian outback). I guess they had forgotten about...
...recent Saudi Arabian peace initiative, first published in a New York Times column last month, has brought a spark of hope in the midst of chaos. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah has said Saudi Arabia and its Arab neighbors would fully normalize relations with Israel in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories in accordance with past U.N. resolutions, and the creation of a Palestinian state. Prince Abdullah plans to ask the 22-member Arab League to back the peace offer at the next summit meeting beginning on March 27 in Beirut...