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...ARABIAN NIGHTS Abbasid Caliphate...
Though the film relies too much on shots of the same few antique paintings and murals, it is often gorgeous to look at. (So it should be: no filmmaker worth his lenses ever shot an ugly scene in the Arabian Desert.) Muhammad cleverly cuts away from incidents in the Prophet's life to scenes in which some modern Muslims--including a New York City fire marshal and a nurse caring for the terminally ill in Dearborn, Mich.--explain how the example of Muhammad's life and work sustains them more than 1,300 years after his death. These stories...
...maritime irregularities aboard the SCUD-bearing vessel So San - nationality and papers not being in order, a false manifest and the vessel's refusal to submit to inspection - that allowed the Spanish navy, acting on a U.S. intelligence tip, to seize it in international waters in the Arabian sea. Those irregularities, and the fact that its unlisted cargo of 15 SCUD missiles bound for Yemen was hidden under thousands of bags of cement certainly conveys an air of contraband, but Yemen immediately insisted that it had purchased the missiles in an above-board transaction with North Korea, and that such...
...production company. He lasted two weeks. "Then I dropped out." He spent the next eight years wandering between Asian hotspots, touching down in Tokyo to reboot on new DAT technology and reload on yen and then blasting off again for the white label Gulf of Siam islands or Arabian Sea coast...
...evidence is all around us. China's surprising cooperation with the U.S. after Sept. 11. Beijing's muted response despite the Bush Administration's de facto upgrading of relations with Taiwan. An equally taciturn response to Japan dispatching naval forces to the Arabian Gulf, an expansion of Tokyo's reach that normally would spark loud complaints from Beijing about Japan's resurgent militarism. And in the U.N. Security Council, a China that says not no but nothing, signaling its quiet acquiescence even as France and Russia actively slow a U.S.-sponsored resolution on Iraq...