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What the Sauds have not done is provide their people with an alternative to the insular world view peddled by the country's Wahhabist clerics. Saudi liberals like Professor Enazy who seek to counter the extremists still find themselves muzzled. Drinking coffee in the refuge of a Riyadh hotel room, Enazy says the government has warned him not to criticize the kingdom's religious establishment. "If I publish anything, I'll get kicked out of a job," he says. "And yet they allow the extremists to get away with anything they want." The U.S. has provided little support to those...
...turn of Thomas Middelhoff, chief executive of the German media giant Bertelsmann. He was so fond of the U.S. entrepreneurial culture that he began calling himself an "American with a German passport." But his plan to transform the firm from an insular private company to a stock market star ended up vexing the family that owns it. Last week, Middelhoff was out. "He was a real wheeler-dealer at a time when we're in a back-to-basics market," said Nick Bell, media analyst at Bear Stearns in London. "I think he was pushing too fast...
...tersloh near Hanover, far from the media centers of New York, London and even Hamburg. Middelhoff offended some executives by discussing their shortcomings in open meetings. He was also comfortable speaking to the press about the company's future plans, which did not sit well with its insular culture. Middelhoff's hard-nosed approach to business may yet help him to find another job. There was speculation last week that he might be chosen to head Deutsche Telekom, the telephone giant whose chief executive, Ron Sommer, was ousted last month...
...confirmed that the public offering of Groupe Bruxelles shares would proceed, but he ruled out the family's selling any of its holdings. "A change of the enterprise strategy was appropriate because of the quick and dramatic changes on the world markets," he said. In other words, the insular, rural German culture of Gütersloh had triumphed over the Anglo-Saxon...
...What the Sauds have not done is provide their people with an alternative to the insular world view peddled by the country's Wahhabist clerics. Saudi liberals like Professor Enazy who seek to counter the extremists still find themselves muzzled. Drinking coffee in the refuge of a Riyadh hotel room, Enazy says the government has warned him not to criticize the kingdom's religious establishment. "If I publish anything, I'll get kicked out of a job," he says. "And yet they allow the extremists to get away with anything they want." The U.S. has provided little support to those...