Word: deserter
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...Palestinian architect of the secret negotiations that produced the Oslo peace accord in 1993. Even Sharon, who denounced that deal, saw in Abbas a man he could do business with. Seven years ago, Sharon, who was then Infrastructure Minister, invited Abbas to Sycamores Farm, his ranch in the Negev desert. Abbas was the first P.L.O. official Sharon ever...
...company's harm. He cost Disney millions of dollars and vast embarrassment by letting Katzenberg's departure deteriorate into a lawsuit. He even badmouths Lost--his own network's hit--to Stewart, to rationalize having opposed it. ("Lost is terrible," he says. "Who cares about these people on a desert island...
When a woman doctor was allegedly raped by four armed men at a residence in the Baluchistan desert on Jan. 2, her assailants may well have expected her to be too ashamed to speak about it. They were wrong. In Pakistan's Baluchistan province, nothing is held in higher regard than a woman's honor, and the allegations of rape have the rough-and-tumble province, rich with natural gas fields, up in arms?literally. Baluch tribesmen have attacked a refinery and pumping station at the Sui gas fields, have sabotaged the pipeline that sends the natural...
...Hart's Hutch Owen stories follow a path as unpredictable as the marketplace. "Aristotle" ends when Hutch finds himself lost in the desert, on the grounds of Onassis Brand Camp, a sort of Outward Bound for biz execs. Hutch encounters Onassis himself, who berates Hutch for his concept of freedom as being able to come and go as he pleases, beholden to no entity. Counters the mustachioed, cross-trainer-wearing Onassis, "I have met the forces of this world. I have danced and wrestled with its gods. I collude with destiny. ? That is freedom." Surprisingly, Hart leaves Owen speechless...
...China's poorest provinces, Ningxia, abuts the Gobi desert and enjoys few economic advantages in any commercial field except perhaps the cultivation of watermelons. Yet this hasn't stopped the leaders of the sand-swept region from pressing local companies to invest abroad and establish an international presence. Last month, Ningxia's commerce bureau issued a directive titled "Leading Ningxia's Enterprises to Grasp the Opportunity and Go Out Faster." The document takes into account that leaping into the cutthroat international arena entails certain risks, noting that the vast majority of Ningxia's enterprises that have previously ventured overseas have...