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While Secretary of State James Baker's plane taxied toward waiting dignitaries in Cairo two weeks ago, a senior official hurried to the rear of the cabin on a damage-control mission. Earlier that day Jordan's King Hussein had endorsed Baker's peace odyssey, but without publicly committing himself to joining the regional conference Baker was pushing. Journalists aboard Baker's plane, however, thought the more compelling story was that Saudi Arabia -- touted by Washington for months as the keystone of a new moderate Arab alliance -- would not attend the conference as a full member. The official tried...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: Robert T. Zintl Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan, David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: Robert T. Zintl Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan, David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: Robert T. Zintl Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan, David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...
...makan: the Arabic language is capable of magical effects. On a squalid Cairo street early on a cold, foul day, people greet each other with small bouquets of words: "Morning of blessings! Morning of light!" They have conjured a moment, and smiled, and passed, and then, poof! they are back on a miserable street among the pariah dogs. If people are poor and live in the desert, language may be their richest possession: Why not? It opens miraculously onto other worlds. The Koran, with its bursts of sonority and light, describes a paradise that has everything the desert does...