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...serve the prosperous and perform most of the work, large numbers of foreign workers were attracted to Kuwait by wages far higher than those they could command at home. In the role of contractors, importers, landlords and bankers, many Kuwaitis found themselves members of a privileged minority set above the expatriate work force. A law enacted in the late 1950s required foreign businessmen to take Kuwaiti partners, another risk-free method of wealth creation that made millionaires of many overnight...
There are two ways to accomplish a cultural transformation of the magnitude contemplated. One is by governmental decree. The other is to let market forces play. While the goal is set -- if still unstated -- the manner of execution is not. Those planning for New Kuwait hope for fiat but are prepared for the slower course. "If, for example, the welfare system is cut back," says Fawzi al-Sultan, "if a person who has three servants, which is not unusual, suddenly has to pay the medical bills of those servants in place of the government, then that person is going...
...only did Milosevic become the first holdover from the communist past to retain the presidency of a Yugoslav republic in an open election; his habit of waving the bloodied shirt of ethnic grievances set Serbia on a course of imminent collision with other Yugoslavs, notably Croats and Slovenes. Said Aleksandar Baljak, a Serbian journalist: "Democracy came and knocked at the door, but we weren't at home...
...titillating the Corleones seemed in 1972 and '74, when Francis Ford Coppola turned Puzo's best seller into two Oscar-winning Godfather films. Here was a family of murderers viewed with cool compassion; they did their lurid business with style. Coppola's own style, which set the tone for '70s movies, was called operatic -- meaning that the characters moved slowly, died grandly and emoted at the top of their lungs. The book was a fast, brutal read; the movie saga was an extended, ravishing look...
Things really get interesting when the creatures on my pet planet develop intelligence. The program is set up so that the beings that become smart are not necessarily human. They can as easily be dolphins or spiders. In one game I played, it was a lizard that discovered fire. Africa was soon littered with Stone Age reptile cities...