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...Even before Sept. 11, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, the Kingdom's de facto ruler, had undertaken a major effort to attract foreign investment and create new jobs. The Kingdom is now also revamping its school curriculum to churn out more scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs rather than religious scholars...
...deal is done--though, for a while, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration wanted to classify the Segway as a "powered industrial truck." Technically, final sidewalk authority rests with state and local governments. Kamen is betting, however, that the decision will be made not by lawmakers but "de facto, by what becomes standard practice. If we have police and mail carriers riding on the sidewalks for a year, how is anyone in government going...
...bring to the battlefield, the nature of their weapons and the identity and generosity of their foreign patrons. There's still a war raging, and reaching an agreement may be relatively simple compared with the challenge of implementing it. After all, the Northern Alliance commanders are the de facto rulers over much of Afghanistan until any new dispensation takes shape. Complicating matters is the fact that the groups gathered at Koenisberg are not exactly a comprehensiv e cross-section of Afghanistan's contending militias, political organizations, tribal structures and ethnic constituencies, and there's a tremendous power imbalance between them...
...address the U.N. General Assembly, Bush's National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, explained the stonewalling. "You cannot help us with al-Qaeda," she said, "and hug [terrorist groups] Hizballah or Hamas." But the U.S. approach has others apopleptic. Even back in August, before Sept. 11 raised the stakes, de facto Saudi leader Crown Prince Abdullah sent a blunt message to Bush: "You've left us no choice but to take steps irrespective of what effects they have on U.S. interests." Last week Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal was similarly scathing: "He cannot be an honest broker and only...
...Northern Alliance are the de facto rulers in Kabul right now, and that may be more than a little alarming, not only to the Pashtun but also to Pakistan, erstwhile patron of the Taliban and now Washington's key regional ally. Pakistan wants a friendly (and predominantly Pashtun) government in Kabul, while the Northern Alliance is antagonistic to Islamabad. And even as local, regional and global powers scramble to arrange a power-sharing formula for a new regime in Kabul, it's worth remembering that the Taliban are bloodied but not yet beaten - they've surrendered most of their territory...