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...Buckpasser (15) and, the greatest of all, Citation (16). A stone bruise to one of his hooves prevented Cigar from racing in the Santa Anita Handicap last month, so win No. 14 will have to wait until March 27, when Cigar runs in the $4 million Dubai World...
Conoco executives might have recognized the Administration's concerns sooner if contacts between the company and Washington had been more high-level and open from the start. Conoco discussed the Iranian deal only with midrank diplomats at U.S. outposts in Dubai, Kuwait and London, as well as in Washington, repeatedly since 1991--including four times in the past 18 months. Nor did State policymakers ever say they flatly opposed the Iranian negotiations. Michael Stinson, who headed the Conoco project, told Congress last week that "the typical response was, 'The U.S. would prefer that you not do this deal...
...There's no way to afford phone calls to my friends," says Zimran D. Ahmed '98, who e-mails his high school friends from Dubai college in the United Arab Emirates several times a week...
Sidhwa's rewriting of the journey to America similarly succeeds. Pakistan International Airlines stops in Dubai where Feroza acquires a duty-free cassette player and camera, then continues to London where she finds herself reading an Agatha Christie novel in a transit lounge. With these scenes, Sidhwa drives home the point that things have changed...
...East European women, desperate to sell themselves for what rarely turns out to be the good life. Police say a quarter of Germany's 200,000 prostitutes are now from the former East bloc. Even in the puritanical Middle East, charter flights full of Russian women disembark weekly at Dubai's airport, ply their trade on 14-day visas and head home, loaded with color television sets. At the Gallery, a Brussels nightclub, a naked Hungarian couple thrash about in what appears to be a live sex act, to tape-recorded groans. Across the Belgian capital at the Aloha Club...