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After the Palestinian question, the hottest political issue in Kuwait concerns the right to vote. Until now, the franchise has been limited to male Kuwaitis who can trace their roots in the country to before 1920, a meager total of about 65,000 people, a figure that is less than...
Most of the opposition favors extending the vote to both later-arriving Kuwaitis and women, but there are indications that the Emir will steal their thunder by broadening the franchise himself. "We have botched almost everything since liberation," says Abdul Rahman al-Awadi, the Prime Minister's adviser, "but through...
Authority would remain firmly in the hands of the King and his brothers. But in the Saudi tradition, the slightest movement toward liberalization is noteworthy. It was not until the 1960s that slavery was abolished and women were allowed to attend schools. A Consultative Council is a concession to the...
Americans are not exactly innocents at the game of exploitation for the greater glory of baseball. In Sugarball (Yale University; $19.95), sociologist Alan M. Klein examines the underside of baseball in the Dominican Republic, the poverty-stricken nation famous for two cash crops: sugarcane and big- & league shortstops. Klein depicts...
Texas went to the private sector for a train that could traverse the unending stretches of the Old West at a pace compatible with 21st century business. The winner of the 50-year franchise for the $5.5 billion project: Texas TGV, an alliance of 19 engineering firms and financiers from...