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After less than two years of teaching at the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin College in Brunei Town, John Wilson, better known as the English novelist Anthony Burgess, nearly lost his mind. The tropical climes nagged him as much as his wife Lynne, whose zany behavior, like cursing out the Duke...
He didn't, thankfully, and lived to write A Clockwork Orange, the dystopian novel on which Stanley Kubrick's cult film was based. A year before it hit the book stores, he published Devil of a State, about his time in Brunei. He had begun writing the scathing send-up...
The mosque - built of creamy Italian marble and English stained glass - and its golden cupolas were, for Burgess, symbols of royal vanity. (It's something visitors to the Royal Regalia Museum, dedicated to the life of the current Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and the many gifts he has received from international...
But many people believe they are being cheated by Saleh and view him as the leader of a corrupt élite who lives in luxury while almost half of the 23 million people in Yemen subsist on less than $2 a day. In the center of Sana'a, the Al...
The sobering reality is that Abbas - both as President of the Palestinian Authority and in his previous capacity, as Yasser Arafat's chief negotiator - declined the best offers of two of Netanyahu's more dovish predecessors, Ehud Barak in 2000 and Ehud Olmert in 2008. And with the median in...