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Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 19 hijackers, is eager to unload this latest hot potato. Officials there quietly hint that the family is of Palestinian, Egyptian or Yemeni origin--the surname is more common in those places--and would love to be able to drop-kick his genealogy to another Arab country. "We are looking into the claims. We are not exactly sure yet," said Nail al-Jubeir, a spokesman for the Saudi embassy in Washington...
...lyrics to EMINEM's Kill You reflect his mercifully unique sensibility. In the song from his Grammy-winning album The Marshall Mathers LP, released in 2000, the eager-to-offend rapper fantasizes about raping his mother and killing women not related to him. The melody to Kill You, however, is being claimed by someone else. French jazz pianist and composer Jacques Loussier, whose works seem to draw more from Bach and Vivaldi than from John Wayne Gacy, has filed a copyright-infringement suit alleging that Kill You lifts portions of Loussier's 20-year-old song Pulsion. The Frenchman...
...large part of Rosenfeld’s lecture comes not from her words at all but from the comments of eager students in the audience. There are 34 women and five men present at Monday’s class...
...sometimes, over-eager applicants divulge too much in their quest to please...
...prices? Saudi Arabia and the rest of OPEC aren't exactly eager to meet demand with supply just yet, but they're not talking about joining Iraq's embargo either. Wall Street and the economy seem able to tolerate a certain amount of Middle East uncertainty. They've had plenty of practice. But nobody wants a war that draws in the surrounding Arab nations and makes Saudi Arabia choose between domestic politics and international money. An unmistakable U.S. presence would send the message that the conflict will not be allowed to spread - and that business elsewhere can continue as usual...