Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dodi al Fayed, the rakish Egyptian-born heir to the billion-dollar Harrods fortune, seemed an unlikely consort for Britain's fairy princess. An unreconstructed playboy, his taste in books seemed to run mainly to a little black one that once contained names such as Brooke Shields and Tawny Kitaen. His past was littered with women he had romanced and rejected, as well as with creditors still hoping to be paid for meals consumed and lodging used long ago. And then there was that vexing question of his family's nationality. Romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland, Diana's stepgrandmother, spoke...
...dictators and murderous wars back from the dead. He has implemented free markets, controlled inflation and cut the civil service. A middle class has emerged, hopeless state-owned enterprises have been privatized, agricultural productivity is soaring, roads crisscross the country. A devil for investment in local enterprise, Museveni charmed Egyptian businessmen into manufacturing muteete-grass toothpaste and urged South African moneymen to start a banana-juice factory. If prosperity has barely begun to reach the man in the street, there is strong domestic and international confidence in Uganda's economic future...
...incident occurred in a tunnel along the Seine River around midnight local time as the princess, 36, and her 42-year-old Egyptian boyfriend, Emad "Dodi" al-Fayed fled the photographers, who pursued on motorcycles. Their Mercedes Benz went out of control and was crushed in the ensuing accident. "The car had clearly done a lot of spinning and was facing in the opposite direction," said Scott MacLeod, of TIME's Paris Bureau...
...National Gallery in Washington has a marvelous show this summer--"Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory." It is by no means a rerun of a familiar subject. Most of the world's major sculptural traditions are abundantly represented in American museums--Egyptian, ancient Greek, Gothic, Italian Renaissance, Indian and Maya. Cambodian sculpture is the exception. Yet there is no doubt that in the small Southeast Asian kingdom between the 6th century and 16th century A.D., some of the greatest stone carving and bronze work in human history was made...
...wounded men--recovering at a local hospital--were identified as Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer, 23, and Lafi Khalil, 22, both Palestinians carrying Jordanian passports. Did the two have links to the militant Islamic movement? Amid the squalor of their apartment were reportedly a picture of the blind Egyptian cleric convicted of conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks, and a note threatening violence against U.S. and Jewish targets. Khalil was carrying an address book listing the name of a known terrorist. Also found: Abu Mezer's completed application for political asylum in the U.S. on the ground that Israel...