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Forget the crown. Dress down a little. In this day and age, that's what you might expect of a monarch like Jordan's Abdullah II. But every few weeks, the 38-year-old ruler of the Hashemite Kingdom gives his wife Queen Rania a jolt by dressing up, carefully adjusting his disguise in the mirror, before heading to work in the morning. Instead of a business suit or perhaps his military uniform, he's wearing jeans, an old army jacket and--get this--an Afro wig, a bushy brown beard and some makeup to darken his eyebrows. To ensure...
...because his ascent to the throne was such a surprise. The eldest son of the late King Hussein was a career military officer, the longtime heir apparent being Hussein's younger brother Hassan. But in the span of two dramatic weeks exactly one year ago, Hussein sacked Hassan, named Abdullah the new heir, suffered a cancer relapse and died. Many Jordanians feared that their small country would not survive without "the father." But now Abdullah is leading his kingdom into an era where building efficient, modern states may be more important than such paralyzing old issues as the Arab-Israeli...
Last month Abdullah Ocalan put pen to paper and wrote a letter from his Turkish prison cell. In it, he urged the European Union to look kindly on his jailers' application for membership to the 15-member economic and political community - an unusual action for a man who has spent 15 years fighting a vicious guerrilla war against Turkey. But the Kurdish rebel leader reaped the benefit Wednesday, when Turkey voted to delay his execution - a punishment handed down on grounds of treason - pending a hearing by the European Court of Human Rights. Turkey's signature on the European Convention...
...Gautam: I go to seminars at the Weatherhead Center. This year, I have gone to speeches, interacted with, more like asked questions, of the likes of King Abdullah II of Jordan, the president of Costa Rica, and the foreign minister of Greece...You can't do that anywhere else, it's an amazing experience...
Bill Clinton will be pleased; so will Greece and even Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan - but being accepted as a candidate member of the European Union may be a mixed blessing for Turkey's leaders. The European Union voted Friday to accept Turkey as a candidate member, conditional on it's improving its human rights record and accepting the binding arbitration of the International Court of Justice at the Hague in its long-running dispute with Greece over Cyprus. "This is good news for the U.S. because Turkey is NATO's front line in relation to Russia and the Caucasus...