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...Isolating Riyadh, though, carries risks. Western diplomats warn that the al-Saud clan, which has ruled the kingdom for the past century, is the only Western-leaning institution left in a fundamentalist state that is growing younger, poorer and more radical. "Let's say we decided to split sheets with the Saudis. What would replace them would not be a pretty sight," says a U.S. diplomat. "You could see another Taliban. There's no moderate group that could come in and take over...
...wrongs of Kakarak, the episode reveals just how tricky the war in Afghanistan has become. The U.S. may have won, in the accepted sense of the word, but the enemy hasn't surrendered. Since the battle of Shah-i-Kot in March, al-Qaeda and Taliban forces have split into smaller and smaller groups, which survive by mixing with civilian populations. That's exactly what a big, heavily armed superpower with a taste for making war from the air doesn't want; it makes the chance of accidents like Kakarak much more likely...
...forced to weigh whether it has become a threat to competition. But will it continue to grow? Ambani is succeeded by his two accomplished and well-educated sons, Mukesh, 44, and Anil, 42, as joint chief executives. So far, they show little of the fraternal rivalries that have split many older Indian business houses. But without the entrepreneurial founder, Reliance may settle into comfortable middle age, eclipsed by India's globally wired I.T. giants like Wipro and Infosys as exemplars of India's economic future. Still, Ambani seems destined to be remembered as a folk hero?an example of what...
...detail." Phil Griffin, a local architectural writer, says "Manchester is realizing more and more that it can dare to be different." The challenge for Manchester was to come up with a master plan that would integrate the impoverished north with the wealthier south, parts of the city that were split by the massive, six-hectare 1970s Arndale Shopping Centre. The stores are still there, but now they are mitigated by the elegance of the Urbis project and the newly created Cathedral Gardens beside it. Simpson, who worked with famed architect Norman Foster in London but returned to his home town...
...political chaos as its own sick man, Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit - who suffers from a host of ailments linked to a chronic neurological disease - stubbornly clung to power. With Ecevit's three-party coalition teetering on the brink of collapse, his Democratic Left Party (D.S.P.) essentially split in two and parliament in recess, Ecevit, 77, defied a growing chorus of demands that he step down because of his poor health and absence from view in the past two months. By the weekend, more than 40 D.S.P. legislators had resigned, as had at least seven cabinet ministers. Most prominent...