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...Ottomans were brutal rulers but passionate lovers of beauty. They started as nomadic warriors under Osman I in the 14th century and eventually controlled the land from Morocco across to Iran and from Poland down to the Arabian Sea. As they conquered and pillaged, they gathered the best art and artisans...
...Altman faced charges that they took millions in bribes to act as front men for the notorious Bank of Credit & Commerce International. But even more significant may be a legal move related to the grand jury indictments of last week: Saudi Sheik Kamal Adham, the longtime head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and one of the most powerful men in the Middle East, entered a guilty plea to charges that he conspired to help B.C.C.I. secretly purchase control of First American, the bank that Clifford and Altman headed. Adham, a key director of both B.C.C.I. and First American, agreed...
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...