Word: kingdoms
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...American staff were among the 12 wounded. In the ensuing shootout with embassy guards and Saudi security forces, Al Juhaini and three other militants were killed and one was captured. The raid constituted the first major Islamic terrorist attack in Jidda, long considered more tolerant than the Kingdom's Wahhabi heartland. Still more disturbing were Al Juhaini's past ties with the authorities, suggesting that residual sympathy for al-Qaeda may exist among elements of the Saudi regime. Al Juhaini, 28, was a former member of the Saudi religious police, the ubiquitous squad that enforces public dress codes and other...
...Rowan's early days in Shanghai as a recruit for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, helping its Nationalist-run counterpart shepherd U.S. aid shipments through China's countryside amid the chaos that followed World War II. The 26-year-old finds himself in what he calls "the kingdom of squeeze," where truckloads of rations, clothing and military supplies often fall prey to Nationalist strongmen who are as intent on lining their own pockets as on preventing the country from slipping into Communist control. Stationed in Shanghai and then Kaifeng, Rowan develops both a sympathy for the peasants caught...
...Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom came out when I was in sixth grade, and it was one of my earliest CD purchases. Simultaneously an addictive pop album and an interesting if not terribly coherent concept piece, it still pops up in my playlist from time to time...
...Rhodes Scholarship allows each recipient to study for two years at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom, for free. Eleven are earmarked for Canada each year...
...long a time or seen so much inside what may be the world's most despotic, secretive and brutal society has escaped to tell the tale. While a steady stream of Korean defectors, as well as escapees from its prison camps, has talked of the horrors of the Hermit Kingdom, Jenkins is the first to provide a detailed view of this little-known land from the perspective of an outsider who became intimately familiar with its perverse inner workings...