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TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud has covered Jimmy Carter and his clan for nearly three years. Last week there was a wedding in the family, and Cloud was in Georgia for the event. His report...
...political terms Saudi Arabia is an astonishing anachronism in an age dominated by the ideals of democracy and socialism. The country has not a single elected official, no parliament, no political parties. Absolute power is vested in the royal family, the House of Saud, a huge clan whose collective decision making provides stability for the country...
...world's largest royal family. It includes an estimated 5,000 princes, and its female members are, quite literally, uncounted. More than a clan, less than a tribe, the House of Saud has a solidarity that accounts in large measure for Saudi Arabia's political stability today...
...Bergen has realized the great dream of amateur conductors everywhere, she owes it to her money as well as to her art. Her mother was a Gardiner (the clan that has owned a private island off Long Island since 1639). She grew up in a 23-room mansion on her family's estate -where she still lives-and was raised on cello lessons, parlor musical soirees and concerts at Carnegie Hall...
...himself. Luckily, the subject is interesting. Kazin has been a member in good standing of the New York intelligentsia ever since 1942 when he published On Native Grounds, a groundbreaking study of modern American literature. The friends and acquaintances he has made since then form an illustrious clan of writers and thinkers, and New York Jew is full of them...