Word: kingdoms
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...Imperial Chinese army of more than a million soldiers marched on the northeast Asian kingdom of Koguryo. Though vastly outnumbered, the soldiers of Koguryo?whom many modern-day Koreans see as their ancestors?routed the Chinese in a victory that is still a source of pride on both sides...
...ANNOUNCED. NATIONWIDE ELECTIONS in Saudi Arabia, the first in the kingdom in four decades; to choose half the members of 178 municipal councils; in Riyadh. The vote will take place in three stages, starting in November after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and finishing in January 2005. The elections are part of a campaign to introduce political reform to the tradition-bound country, although Saudi women's rights activists complain that suffrage will not be extended to women...
...Tiny Step SAUDI ARABIA Government officials in Riyadh announced the country's first-ever nationwide elections, to choose half the members of 178 municipal councils, in three stages between November and January 2005. The polls are part of a broader campaign to introduce political reform in the conservative kingdom, but women's-rights advocates complain that eligibility will probably not be extended to women...
...Marumba invites his flock to test the water. "Put your hands in it," he says. As he tells it, such baptisms are at the heart of his church's faith: "It's about dying and resurrecting afresh. When we are born again, we become the light in the kingdom...
...aristocrat married a Saudi named Yeslam and inherited more than 50 sisters-and brothers-in-law, one of whom was Yeslam's younger half brother Osama bin Laden--then a mere religious zealot she describes as "not strikingly different from the other brothers." In her new book, Inside the Kingdom, bin Ladin details the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia and within the bin Laden clan. Her first child was a girl and, writes bin Ladin, "Yeslam simply walked out when he learned that--turned on his heel and walked out of the hospital." After two more girls, the couple...