Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's relation with foreign parties havedrawn some attention in recent years. TheUniversity recently reported to the InternalRevenue service that in fiscal year 1990, theMedical School refused a contract to provideservices to a Saudi Arabian hospital. The contractwould have required that the Medical Schoolcooperate with an international boycott of Israel
...mecca for the cultural elite, the Algiers is a good place to chat about your favorite post-colonialist scholar or huddle in a corner with some slim, tragic French novel. But the coffee and desserts, though expensive, are tasty enough to attract less intense visitors. Especially good is the "Arabian toast" (sticky triangles of pita bread, and the house specialty, a greenish coffee served with lots of whipped cream...
Unforunately, she responded incorrectly in Final Jeopardy!, saying the Iberian, not the Arabian is the largestpeninsula in the world at one million square milesof land mass...
...imitation of Paradise." Islam's holy Koran, which called the site Iram, evoked the grandeur of "lofty pillars, the like of which were not produced in ((all)) the land." This was also Islam's Sodom, however, a place that God destroyed because of its wickedness. Ever since, warns an Arabian saying, "anybody who finds Ubar will go crazy." And according to an Arabian Nights tale, "Allah blotted out the road that led to the city...
Although I served most of my time in the Saudi Arabian desert just south of Iraq and Kuwait, I was in Kuwait City last March, right after the end of the war. Many others have written about the joy of the Kuwaiti people after their liberation, but I want to add some thoughts about the real meaning of one man's heart felt "thank...