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...Saudi Arabia for its part in the atrocity. While admitting the need for Saudi internal reform, he charges that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - not the Saudi social system - is the "festering ground" for terrorism. He cautions that if misconceptions about Saudi Arabia persist, it may cause an unbridgable gap in long-standing U.S.-Saudi relations. As for America's difficulties in Iraq, the prince says, "We told you so." Excerpts...
...first number, MADONNA, coming off a poorly selling album and an even worse-selling movie, played tonsil hockey with BRITNEY SPEARS, who has had some sales struggles of her own. Then she Dietriched over to CHRISTINA AGUILERA and gave her some sugar too. If the Material Girl's Gap ads don't move some merch, we might see her yanking up her top at the Grammys...
...foreign traveler, this is precisely the attraction. You haven't been preceded by backpacking squads of gap-year Europeans; there are no sari-clad Swiss ladies or gentle Australian retirees asking directions to the nearest Ayurvedic spa. As a result the touts and taxi drivers are smiling, open-faced na?fs by the rapacious standards of India's tourism hot spots, and the infrastructure is gratifyingly nonexistent. All you get is unmediated India. And an awful...
...calendar it is currently the year 2060?preserves a system of feudal landlords, bonded labor and a medieval level of destitution. The Asian Development Bank estimates that 42% of the 26 million population lives below the poverty line?and Nepal's leaders have made scant effort to address the gap between the impoverished many and the privileged few. A Hindu god-king ruled Nepal as an absolute monarch until 1989. Under the current system?constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy?revolutionary ideology has taken hold. In a population living mostly in squalor, the most popular political parties are old-style communist...
...Burger), the Wursthaus, the Crimson Sports Grille, Store24 and Siam Garden have all been replaced by newer storefronts for swarms of tourists. We now house four Starbucks, four upscale bars that are just too clean for any self-respecting college student to haunt, an Abercrombie and Fitch, a Gap, a gourmet desserterie and two high-end watch stores (in case you can’t find the Rolex you want at just one of them...