Word: emirates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rabin and the subsequent defeat of Rabin's moderate successor Shimon Peres by hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu. Assad is also more focused on Syria's inevitable political transition, having watched the deaths this year of three fellow Arab stalwarts, King Hussein of Jordan, King Hassan II of Morocco and Emir Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa of Bahrain. Observes an Assad watcher at the White House: "He has a sense of his own mortality...
...think Milosevic has spoken a word of truth in the last seven years, so one would have to be a complete idiot to believe anything Milosevic says without clear support from his actions," said Emir Kamenica '01, who is from Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina...
Also from Sarajevo, Emir Kamenica '01 said he agreed the strikes were crucial, but thought they should have come sooner...
...Anyone still willing to believe [Milosevic] has clearly been unable to learn from his past lies," said Emir Kamenica '00, who is from Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina. "Anyone with any sense should assume that the things he says are lies unless shown otherwise in his actions...
...Emir is counting on the popularity of his policies to pull him through. But he's not pushing a personality cult. One morning last summer, he was riding to work when he noticed billboards across Doha praising the first anniversary of his accession. When Hamad got to the Diwan, he issued instructions: Drop plans to celebrate the coup anniversary. "As for myself," the Emir said, "I plan to go fishing...