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...leisure who spent her short life with royal jokers and playboys is hailed as one who shaped 1997? And a human being who tirelessly spent her entire life tending to the destitute doesn't warrant any mention? That omission makes me wonder where we are headed. SAM SWAMINATHAN Dubai, United Arab Emirates...
...conference in 1989, "If I had been a Cuban leader, I think I might have expected a U.S. invasion." Kennedy is often praised for his handling of the crisis. But less discussed is the skill with which he hid the U.S. insurgency campaign against Cuba. DEREK MULLINGS Dubai, United Arab Emirates...
...that exported Egyptian-made furniture to Saudi Arabia. The company took off, and not long after, al Fayed married Khashoggi's sister Samira, who gave birth to Dodi in 1955. He divorced her after two years and went into the construction business in the United Arab Emirates. After befriending Dubai's ruler, al Fayed won big development contracts for British firms prowling the Persian Gulf. "Of course," says Khashoggi, "there were fees and commissions." This brokering was the foundation of the Fayed family fortune...
Dodi's adolescence was spent shuttling among homes in Alexandria, Dubai and France. At 15 he was reportedly given his own Mayfair apartment, Rolls-Royce and chauffeur. He is said to have abandoned a fledgling career in the United Arab Emirates air force in favor of one in show business, establishing a London film-production company in the late 1970s. "He was financed by his father," Khashoggi says. With the elder Fayed's help, Dodi supplied $3 million of the $6.5 million total budget for the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. In subsequent years he announced dozens of projects that...
...horse is only days away from his own travel to Dubai, which is a long way from South Dakota, where Mott grew up as the son of a veterinarian. "I located it on the globe the other day," says the 42-year-old trainer, though in truth he has been hard at work on the logistics of the trip for months. He knows that Dubai's track surface is like Belmont's, that the hay there is from Washington State, and that the journey for Cigar will take 18 to 20 hours, stall to stall, counting a refueling layover...