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...overseas carousing. He drank Scotch freely, ordered caviar by the pound, attended the raunchy shows in the nightclubs of Beirut so frequently that he knew all the leading belly dancers by name, engaged in myriad liaisons with women (he is said to have paid the wife of a Lebanese businessman $100,000 a year to make herself available) and, if old stories are to be believed, gambled away $1 million in the casinos of Monte Carlo during a single weekend...
...Rodeo is the brainchild of San Francisco developer Douglas Stitzel, a onetime University of California, Berkeley, Sanskrit scholar turned businessman, who is charging his tony tenants top dollar for their new space. Tiffany, Cartier, Sulka, Valentino and other luxury outlets that plan to arrive by November will pay as much as $250,000 a month rent...
...royals do retain their undiluted authority, many Saudis would like to see curbs on their abuses of privilege. Paying huge commissions to princes is the price of doing business in the kingdom. "They already receive allowances from the government that allow them to lead easy lives," complains a prominent businessman, "and yet they shake us down...
Some Saudi liberals seek U.S. support for their campaign for change. "We hope the American presence is not just protection for the status quo," says a businessman. "We assume it will bring an improvement in the integrity of the government." From Washington's viewpoint, however, pushing Fahd and family down the fast track to Westernization and democratization is a likely prescription for a Shah-like disaster. Swift liberalizations could easily stir religious extremists to revolt. "If there's an internal threat to the kingdom," says a U.S. expert on Saudi Arabia, "it's from fundamentalists on the right, not liberalizers...
...Republicans are vying for the right to challenge Kerry: Concord real estate developer James Rappaport and Hingham businessman Dan W. Daly...