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JORDAN. Bloody price riots in April 1989 convinced King Hussein that he needed to engage the public in the kingdom's political and economic problems. Last November he called the first national elections in 22 years. The result was telling: of the 80 parliamentarians elected, 34 were members or supporters of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. Although the moderate Brotherhood was the only organized opposition force to stand in the elections, Arab leaders read the outcome as a confirmation of their worst fears. While Hussein favors continued reforms, he retains absolute control of defense and foreign policy...
...what do you want for $30.74? And what, eventually, will you get? An anti- Disney World, as far removed in spirit from the Magic Kingdom as gray (the dominant color) is from glitz. Both parks have strolling characters, but instead of Mickey and Minnie, Universal has Frankenstein, Marilyn Monroe, Beetlejuice. Both places will sell you plenty of food, but Universal's is spicier, tastier, more sophisticated. In movie-ratings terms, Disney's rides are G (for Gentle), Universal's PG (for Pretty Grisly...
...Elizabethans like Lord Hanson and Sir James Goldsmith appear as contemporary Sir Francis Drakes, wreaking their havoc among clumsy corporate galleons. But the staid giants of British business -- the ships of the line, so to speak -- are hardly less daring in their sorties abroad. Nor have the kingdom's investment managers lagged behind...
Within a decade, Britain's entrepreneurs and investors have re-won an empire on which the sun never sets and restored the kingdom to its position as a major international creditor and provider of capital. That's not a situation that squares with decline-and-fall scenarios. As the Financial Times notes, this newly created patrimony is "a large nest egg for when North Sea oil runs out." It -- and the freedom that made it possible -- may be Thatcherism's most enduring legacy...
...after five years as an Egyptologist, including a year and a half in Cairo studying hieroglyphics, and a thesis on the Old Kingdom, he can spin innumerable tales of the history and lore of the Middle East. Antara, a bastard son and warrior from the Jahaliya, the time before Islam. Akhnaten, who ruled before Tut, and founded the temple of the sun god. But though Egyptology was what originally took him to Egypt, "when I got there I was more interested in modern Egypt...