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...Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will continue to be a key player in the Middle East (economically, socially and politically). USA will pay such a high price should they lose Saudi Arabia as an ally. Similarly with Saudi Arabia. However, both sides should review, and carefully, their 60 years of friendship and understand why it was fractured after Sept. 11. They could maintain another 60 years of strong alliance if both sides: 1. become more transparent with their plans 2. encourage tolerance in their homelands 3. don't interfere with domestic affairs. Nabeel Al Mojil Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...
...junior high and high school. "By college we realized we were better friends than lovers," she says. These days Livingston, who got married on July 19 (with Lawrence as her "bride dude"), tries to set Lawrence up on dates. Her husband Elliot "is great about our friendship," she says. "I wouldn't have married him if he weren't." The threesome often goes out at night together or plays golf on weekends...
...benefits of platonic friendship are multifold, if a bit different for each sex. Male friendships tend to be founded on companionship; men typically define their best friend as someone with whom they can do things. Women usually count a close friend as someone with whom they can talk and share feelings. "Men often find it difficult to become emotionally close to other men," says Peter Nardi, a sociologist at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. "They're more comfortable revealing their emotions to a woman." Each sex looks to the other for aspects of the other's form of friendship. While...
...past he has desperately tried to escape. Exiled to San Francisco, Amir revisits that past in a series of flashbacks set amidst Afghanistan's war-wracked history. What begins as a rosy portrayal of an affluent childhood in 1970s Kabul quickly turns into a wretched but compelling tale of friendship, betrayal, guilt and redemption...
...Strolling in Golden Gate Park, Amir watches a pair of kites overhead and recalls his childhood friend and servant, Hassan, who is a Hazara, one of Afghanistan's persecuted minorities. The boys are inseparable, but their friendship is fraught with tension. Amir is quiet, bookish and jealous of the attention his father bestows on the athletic, courageous Hassan. Angry and frustrated, he plays cruel jokes on his friend, guiltily justifying them on the basis of Hassan's low status: "Because history isn't easy to overcome. I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, and nothing was ever going...