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Critics of Saudi Arabia will be quick to wonder if Abdullah shouldn't be paying less attention to the contours of a bowling green and more to the political lie of the land. The Sept. 11 deeds of Saudi-born terrorist Osama bin Laden and 15 fellow Saudi plane hijackers have put the secretive Kingdom's worsening strains on public view as rarely before. Whether in response to the need to curb Islamic extremism, hold down soaring population growth, combat plummeting personal incomes or eliminate royal corruption, the world is calling on Abdullah - as are many Saudis...
...Pearl, the best hope seemed to lie in the fact that Saeed--if indeed he is the kidnapper--once took pity on the innocents he had duped into captivity. Echoing words uttered by a radical in a van seven years ago, Marianne Pearl in a televised interview offered herself to her husband's kidnappers. The question is, Did she trigger a memory...
...conscious” policies are superfluous because white racism is no longer a significant obstacle to black progress. Others maintain that these programs serve only to intensify the racial divide. Some conservatives argue that the government has no responsibility to consider race because the causes of the racial divide lie within the black community itself: in the innate inferiority of African-Americans (as the infamous 1994 book The Bell Curve suggests) or in the community’s own inadequacy (according to the “black pathology” argument). Liberal thinkers contend that the government should take race...
...first, things were tense in Colorado—I can’t lie about that,” Biondo said. “It was a tough situation with the arbitration going on and all. It was tough to skate those first couple of days...
...between Alex and Steven Keaton. But while Archie Bunker’s children were adults who might be expected to challenge the crusty patriarch’s dogged views, the eldest Keaton siblings were mere adolescents. The uniqueness and cultural importance of “Family Ties” lie in the precocity of Alex, Mallory, Jennifer and even little Andy. Their maturity and wisdom created a world in which the children often raised their parents—as well as a political dichotomy shared at dinner tables across the country, as the flower children’s offspring embraced...