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...next day Khashoggi called his wife Lamia into his all-white bedroom to give her a $1.9 million diamond, emerald-and-ruby necklace. "Oh, Baba!" (Arabic for "father") she exclaimed when she saw it. His ex-wife Soraya, who presented her husband with a $2.5 billion divorce suit seven years ago that was resolved amicably, was also at the house: she got a less expensive ruby necklace. Christmas was relatively quiet this year, said Khashoggi, because the family is still grieving the death of his sister in March...
Every summer has its anthem, a beer-swilling, under-age-seducing, busted-for-drunk-driving tune sung by millions of schoolless American teens in their Camaros. One can trace the history of this country back through these songs: from "Sharp Dressed Man" to "Jump" to "Baba O'Reilly" to "Brown Sugar," all the way back to "Good Golly Miss Molly" and "Great Balls of Fire." Record companies have always identified hot weather with cool cash...
...recorded in the books of old that fair Scheherazade deflected the murderous intentions of her king and lord, Schahriah, by telling him stories every evening for 1,001 nights. She spun out tales of Aladdin and his magic lamp, of Sinbad's sailing on the seven seas, of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves. To titillate his fancy, she also spoke of three girls from Baghdad who danced & naked with a porter. Of a lady who beseeched two men to "pierce me with your rapiers." Of a woman's passion for a monkey, and a bear...
...generation of viewers may be just as delighted with the shows Gleason has pulled out of his Ali Baba's cave in Florida. One of Ralph's more tender lines to Alice could be applied to each of the four star players: "Baby, you're the greatest...
Your story on abortion [NATION, Sept. 24] says that medieval theologians estimated that "the soul joined the body at the 40th day of pregnancy." Forty is a magical number. The biblical Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights, Ali Baba had 40 thieves, and Moses wandered in the wilderness for 40 days. Suleiman died standing up, leaning on his cane. Nobody realized he was dead until 40 days later, when he finally fell...