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...Fader Label) 3 of 5 Stars On the heels of their sold-out US concert tour, Editors (no article, oh-so-clever) have finally released their first CD, “The Back Room,” in the States, after several months of growing popularity in the United Kingdom. Joy Division comparisons are already tiresome—it seems that every melancholy vocalist in a post-punk band is compared to the late Ian Curtis—but inevitable with Editors, whose debut offers an uneven retread of the sound, style and lyrics of their legendary Manchester-based predecessors...
After 9/11, and the discovery that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, the flow of students from the desert kingdom to the United States largely dried up. Now the U.S. and Saudi governments are cooperating on a program to encourage more Saudi students to come to the U.S. for college. TIME's Jeff Chu went to Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where the Saudi contingent now numbers more than 30. Here are some of their thoughts about life on a U.S. campus, and Americans' view of their homeland...
...college in the U.S., they told him it might not be a good idea. Attending an American school had been almost a rite of passage for ambitious Saudis, but after the 9/11 attacks and the discovery that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from the desert kingdom, many Saudi students, as well as those from other Arab and Muslim countries, rushed home fearful of repercussions. Few filled their places. As he made the long journey from Riyadh to Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., al-Dehaim, 18, admitted he was still "nervous that American people would get nervous about Saudi people...
...data) and against the will of most national governments, who are struggling with frail growth and mounting resentment of Europe. Oddly enough, the most successful countries in the “old” EU are those which do not belong to the Euro area: the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark. With huge costs and scarce benefits, the risk of a European disintegration has never been so high. In reality—and this was precisely the rationale of the monetary unification gamble—the Euro area is a single large economy, and, as such, needs proactive and cooperative...
Vice President of Alumni Affairs and Development Donella M. Rapier calls the prince, who is chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company, a “self-made man.” According to Rapier, Alwaleed views himself first as billionaire, then as businessman, then as prince, as evidenced by the title of his autobiography, “Billionaire, Businessman, Prince...