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...knew about Alanoud, 25, before we met this morning was that she's the oldest daughter of a prominent Saudi businessman and that her mother, who is half Lebanese, attends the haute couture shows in Paris fully veiled. Yesterday in the malls, as I watched women in floor-length black robes called abayas and head scarves called sheilahs, as well as those wearing burqas covering everything but their eyes, I wondered what Alanoud would be like and whether it would be difficult to relate to someone from a culture so different from mine. That was before a dazzling girl...
...chair in Islamic law. In 1982, Harvard received two gifts within months of each other. The first, $600,000 tagged for the Semitic Museum’s efforts at preserving photographs of Middle Eastern life, came from the Saudi royal family. The second gift, this time from a Saudi businessman, aroused controversy because some alleged that it involved an unwritten agreement conditional on the hiring of a new faculty member with ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). The allegations were never proven...
...investment vehicles have acquired the Tussauds Group wax museums and a 2% stake in DaimlerChrysler. U.S. purchases include the landmark Essex House hotel and Helmsley Building in New York, and 69 apartment-rental properties in southern U.S. states. And he's clearly not done. Says Alabbar: "For any businessman, you need to operate in the American economy and understand it. That's where a lot of the stuff in the world starts. That's why I am in California." (And to visit his son, who attends college in San Diego.) Perhaps most impressively, the sheik has eschewed the opaque, connection...
...businessmen, including current Representative Robert Jaworski, Jr. and former Representative Ding Tanjuatco, were in and out of the meeting, which ran well past 1 a.m. While one of Cojuangco's daughters kept a buffet table piled high with chicken sandwiches, macaroni salad, corn and cookies, Pastor Saycon, a businessman and longtime Arroyo critic, discussed a new government. As the others listened, Saycon spoke over the phone to a person he identified as an American official in Washington, assuring him that the post-coup regime would remain on good terms with the U.S. "You will still be our friend," he said...
...idea came from Seattle businessman and frequent flier Matthew Daimler. "In 2001, my job required extensive travel between San Francisco and Europe," he says. "I quickly noticed that there were a handful of prime seats and terrible seats in each cabin ... I started to post my observations on the Internet and there was immediate interest." Eight million visitors later and the site is providing seating information for 29 major carriers. SeatGuru.com uses color coding and icons to denote facilities such as laptop power connections and different types of entertainment systems, as well as to rate overall comfort level (based...