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...year to complete the trifecta. All of the restaurants have many attributes; charm and coziness are not among them. As the name suggests, these are vast, no-nonsense production lines designed to facilitate mass consumption (of which more later). Suffice it to say that the restaurants’ pseudo-Egyptian décor—think Valley of the Kings on crack—fools no one. The Cheesecake Factory is a temple to one thing only: food...
...settler colonies. The contest supposedly demonstrated its impartiality last year by selecting Agbani Darego, Miss Nigeria, to be the first black African Miss World in the contest’s 50-year history. (Two previous African winners had been white South Africans, and one other had been an Arab Egyptian...
With garlands of colored lights decorating Baghdad for the holy month of Ramadan, the city is engulfed more by holiday spirit than war fever. After the U.N. eased sanctions against Iraq in 1996, local markets grew flush with everything from Korean TVs and Japanese cars to Syrian trousers and Egyptian milk. For reasons unknown, the government recently gave families an extra month's supply of such rationed items as rice and beans. Millions of dollars of illicit revenues are sloshing through the economy, thanks to oil smuggled across the borders with Jordan, Turkey and Iran. Iraqis are thus enjoying...
Paulin has come under fire for statements he has made regarding conflict in the Middle East. He said that Brooklyn-born settlers on the West Bank in Israel “should be shot dead,” according to one Egyptian newspaper. And he wrote of “Zionist SS” who shot “another little Palestinian boy” in one of his poems...
...blame the authorities for being caught by surprise if something terrible does happen? An early indication that al-Qaeda might be turning its sights on Europe came in an audio recording of Ayman al-Zawahiri broadcast by the Qatar-based television network al-Jazeera on Oct. 8. The Egyptian doctor, Osama bin Laden's right-hand man, said his network had already sent messages to Germany and France but that "if these doses weren't enough, we are prepared with the help of Allah to inject further doses." Hanning's analysts figured he was referring to the April 11 synagogue...