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That was about the cheeriest sentiment Americans could manage last week, as the country caroled, gift-wrapped and tinseled its way through the holidays in search of some deeper tidings of comfort and joy. For those with a global perspective, there is plenty to inspire gratitude this season: the country is not (yet) at war; there are families in Romania, Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia sharing the holidays in freedom and safety for the first time; Frank Sinatra just celebrated his 75th birthday. But try as they will to count blessings, many Americans who read the newspapers, check their bank statements...
Without a country to govern, many in Taif have little to do but worry. They dial around the world in search of news, play countless rounds of hand, the 14-card Kuwaiti version of gin rummy, and recall receiving Iraqi television transmissions at home in Kuwait. "Saddam was on all the time," says a Kuwaiti minister. "On any given day you could see him instructing women on how to make tomato paste, or children on how to brush their teeth. It was some of the best comedy around...
...mere generation ago, the people of the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf led a life little different from the one their ancestors had led since the advent of Islam. During migrations in search of water and trading locations, mainly from the Najd region of what is today the central part of Saudi Arabia, a group of tribes called the Bani Utub settled the town of Kuwait (in simple translation, Little Fort) in the early 1700s. With trade the major source of income, the tribes established a unique political system. Of the three most , influential families, the Khalifas...
...Connecticut man has been convicted of murder. The man argues in his defense that the police made an illegal search of his "home" -- the cardboard boxes he used as a chest of drawers as he sheltered beneath a highway overpass -- in order to get their evidence. Does the Fourth Amendment protect cardboard boxes? What is the legal definition of home? What confers the sanctity of home? A lease or a deed? Four walls? How thick or thin? Must home have doors and locks...
...SEARCH FOR SCARLETT II Margaret Mitchell refused to write a Gone With the Wind sequel, yet publishers were undeterred. In 1988 romance novelist Alexandra Ripley was selected to write the saga, but Warner Books, which paid $5 million for the rights, let the autumn 1990 publishing date slip...