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...Fifteen years ago, when King Fahd was still Crown Prince, he pledged to establish a citizens' consultative council upon ascending Saudi Arabia's throne. But after he came to power in 1982, Fahd found ample excuses to confine decision making within a narrow family circle. Then came Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent arrival of more than 500,000 U.S. troops in the region. While President Bush maintained that Desert Storm was not designed to promote democracy in the gulf's oilagarchies, the campaign to liberate Kuwait prodded conservative Arab rulers to broaden public participation...
...Fifteen freshmen join the Crimson this season, including high school All-Americans Pat Marvin, Steven Gaffney and Michael Todd...
...bone-dry Southern California, the rains that began Feb. 5 at first provided a welcome respite from a six-year-long drought. But last week the storms suddenly became too much of a good thing. Fifteen inches has fallen, drowning cars, streets and houses under rivers of water. At least eight people died, including a Ventura County man and his pregnant wife who were buried by a wave...
...holds up mid-afternoon traffic on Elm Street for fifteen minutes, and a woman leans out the window of her Chevy to ask what is going on. The Bush motorcade appears in the distance, approaches, passes by at twenty miles an hour. Eleven police cars with flashing lights, then the six press vans, the Secret Service, the Buicks full of aides, the ambulance, finally the President's limo and then more police...
...headquarters is relatively empty becausemost of the workers have been bused to theSomerset Clarion Hotel in Nashua, where Harkinwill speak to the United Auto Workers' dinner atseven. It is snowing. The New Hampshire road crewshaven't salted or plowed yet, and the traffic onI-93 goes fifteen miles an hour under the minimumspeed limit of forty-five. The New HampshireLiquor Store/Rest Stops aren't doing much businesstonight...