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...Mehdi Bazargan: "Ideologically, this revolution cannot support systems like Saudi Arabia's. Islam has no kings." The Saudis answer that they have an institution that serves the needs of their society: the majlis, where King Khalid and the major princes of the royal family can be approached by the humblest petitioner in the land. In essence, government in Islamic theory is to be a regulator rather than a direct agent in every sphere of life. Its prime duty is to ensure that the basic principles of social justice are realized...
...subject seems beyond the interest or knowledge of Berton Roueché. An amateur gourmet, he writes lovingly of bananas, "the humblest fruit," but with their comprehensive range of minerals and protective germ-battling skin, a near perfect food. He delves into history to recount the tale of garlic (the early Greeks and Israelites learned about it from the Egyptians). He waxes more poetic about apples, rejecting the notion that this was the fruit forbidden to Adam and Eve. "The apple-the apple I know, the apple of country cider and the autumn roadside bushel-would be out of character...
Concerned officials from the White House to the humblest city hall are grappling with questions about the underclass. How big is it? Who is in it? What motivates its members? Most important, how can this minority within a minority be reduced...
...later became a U.S. Senator, was telling Southern yeomen that they were "the sworn foes of monopoly of power, of place, of wealth, of progress." In this, however, was the classic American doctrine of opportunity-not anticapitalism, but the insistence that, as Watson said, "the poorest, the weakest, the humblest" have a fair chance...
Egypt's industry is woefully inadequate. Despite sizable subsidies from other Arab nations, the government has been unable to create enough jobs, and in the end has itself become the biggest employer. As a result, the bureaucracy is stupendous, and even the humblest functionaries have become what a Western diplomat calls "masters of creative inefficiency." Government offices that could operate with 500 people are burdened with 2,000. When Sadat decreed an end to censorship of newspapers soon after he became President, he was not lauded as a liberalizer-far from it. A delegation of censors trooped before...