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...preparing, possibly, to receive the first blow and then strike back. I believe the losses are going to be horrendous in terms of lives, damage to the infrastructure, oil. Also, there will be other damage: the fact that there are foreign troops, even in the country that is the custodian of the holy places. There is also great agitation over the lack of progress on the Palestinian problem and the fact that the status of Jerusalem is still unresolved. If war occurs, the damage will be felt throughout the Muslim and Arab world. What is the purpose? The destruction...
...spokesperson for Nomura, the company that endowed the chair, said it hoped the donation would "encourage and recognize the trend toward scholarship and research in international finance." The Tokyo-based Nomura Securities Company, the world's largest, directly manages approximately $120 billion and acts as custodian for more than five million investors...
They are, strangely, the same person: Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian (of the holy places of Mecca and Medina), a form of address he prefers to Your Majesty. And the difference between the profligate prince and the cautious King reflects something more than the aging of the young hell raiser into a 69-year-old monarch whose 275-lb. bulk has so weakened his knees that he has trouble walking. Some 37 years ago, Fahd went through a conversion that, though forced on him, has had a lasting effect...
...growth has all but vanished from private lands. Most of the remaining great trees are in areas under federal control, administered primarily by the Forest Service. Many Americans believe these lands are all included in the national parks, and that the U.S. Forest Service is a gentle custodian of the woodlands. Except in certain protected wilderness areas, that is not so. The Forest Service and BLM, which oversee the public lands, are empowered to sell timber rights to the highest bidder, and sell they have -- a staggering 5 billion board feet a year, sweeping away 70,000 acres...
Friends of the longtime custodian yesterday praised him for his character and his dedication to Harvard, for which he received several merit commendations--including an award in recognition of a 15-year period during which Parker did not miss a single day of work...