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Because of its size and clout in the Arab world, Saudi Arabia is capable of playing a role in the Middle East peace process. President Bush consults regularly with Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto Saudi ruler, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the Saudis' influence is limited. Though Abdullah has dangled normalized relations with Israel in exchange for a Palestinian state, only Washington has the credibility to drag the two sides to the negotiating table...
...Because of its size and clout in the Arab world, Saudi Arabia is capable of playing a role in the Middle East peace process. President Bush consults regularly with Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto Saudi ruler, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the Saudis' influence is limited. Though Abdullah has dangled normalized relations with Israel in exchange for a Palestinian state, only Washington has the credibility to drag the two sides to the negotiating table...
...meetings, focus groups and overnight polling. The goal: to improve the image of the Saudis in the U.S. Only 32% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Saudi Arabia, down from 60% during the Gulf War. The point man for the campaign, Adel al-Jubeir, a top aide to Crown Prince Abdullah, says that after Sept. 11, "we discovered Americans don't know us. So we decided to explain ourselves to them...
...more power. When they rouged up a rough image or drew a mustache on a hero, the picture stuck. Williams didn't care to smile for the camera, so the writers painted him as a surly cur. They didn't like him in 1942, when he won the Triple Crown (batting average, home runs, runs batted in) but lost the MVP to the inferior Joe Gordon...
...Korean and Turkish players with their arms around one another's shoulders, saluting the Korean fans. Next time, at World Cup 2006, perhaps one of the Davids will take things a step further, capitalize on lessons learned in Japan and Korea, and put up a genuine challenge for the crown. But it will not be easy. They will not only likely have to take on the Brazilian defending champions, who in the next four years seem certain to mature, settle and become even stronger. They will have to do it in the most traditional of footballing nations. Germany...