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...order to evacuate the following day, he returned to Beirut and checked into a hotel near the American University of Beirut. After finally boarding an ISOS bus and travelling to the border, Jurdi reported witnessing complete chaos, with Western embassies scrambling to evacuate their nationals from the capital city...
...When he conceded defeat, Reed addressed about 100 faithful for only five minutes, and quickly left the hotel ballroom, noting that Election Day was also his 19th wedding anniversary and striking a chord for party unity. "Job number one is to work for Governor [Sonny] Perdue's re-election..." Undaunted by his defeat, Reed still had the audacity to trumpet the same signature issue that had been his undoing. "It was a positive campaign about the issues; about fiscal responsibility, about improving our schools through charter and choice, and about strengthening our values... Stay in the fight, don't retreat...
...construction boom. The 70/30 business-government partnership, run by chairman Mohammed Ali Alabbar, started taking its expertise on the road in 2002, achieving a market cap worth $20 billion. Currently, in addition to constructing Burj Dubai, touted as the world's tallest skyscraper, Alabbar is busy with undertakings from hotels in Miami to a convention center in Hyderabad, India. His eye-catching projects include the $26.6 billion construction of an entire new metropolis in the Saudi Arabian desert to be called King Abdullah Economic City and a global hotel and condo partnership with Italian designer Giorgio Armani...
...adopting common product standards. "There is a reshaping of the landscape," says Hassan Heikal, CEO of EFG-Hermes Holding SAE, a Cairo investment bank, over cocktails at the Four Seasons First Residence--itself the product of a partnership among a local investor, a Saudi prince and a Canadian hotel mogul. "There is a new breed of CEOs who are willing to go outside their own borders and take risks. I'm very bullish on the Middle East for the next 10 to 20 years." With that, Heikal, considered the whiz kid of Egyptian high finance, was off to dinner with...
With Israeli warships attacking ports and running blockades, the only way out of the country is by land through Syria. Fleets of taxis carried hotel guests on the three-hour trip to Damascus until an air strike knocked out a key bridge. Now cars have to take back roads through the high mountain passes or head north up the coast road toward the Syrian city of Homs. Given the conditions on the roads, staying in Beirut while the bombs fall is as good an option as trying to make a run for it. "You share your bed with a Lebanese...