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Decorum was shattered at the Arab summit in Doha last week when Izzat Ibrahim, the Iraqi envoy, lashed out at Kuwaiti diplomat Mohammed Sabah al-Salem: "Shut up, you monkey ... Curse be upon your mustache." Those are fighting words in a region where men have been cultivating whiskers since the Ottoman Empire. More than a badge of manhood, the mustache is practically a totem: to seal a deal Iraqis literally swear by them; to compliment a man they say "an eagle could land on his mustache." During the Iraq-Iran war, facial hair was an extension of the military uniform...
...Smacked down: Despite Izzat's tirade, Kuwaiti envoy Sabah al-Salem, above, kept a stiff upper...
...beaded bikinis) and the commercial collection, which buyers find in the showroom. It's thanks to Eva, for example, that the micro-mini dresses that debut on the Cavalli runway miraculously reappear there in three different lengths. "Roberto comes up with the concepts," says Sheik Majed al-Sabah, a Kuwaiti retailer who is opening two new Cavalli boutiques in the Middle East this year, "and she makes it happen. He's out with the celebrities and she's at home in Florence making his dreams come true." And the dreams are bigger than ever. In addition to the printing plants...
Those at the sharp end of any war were, as usual, going about their business last week with studied unconcern for stuff they didn't have time to worry about. At a firing range in the northern Kuwaiti desert, Marine Corporal Edon Willis, 23, who had spent most of the past week unpacking his kit and training, was asked what he thought about Powell's performance. "We didn't hear about any speech," he said. "We're just waiting for our orders." They're coming. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Mark Thompson and Michael Weisskopf/Washington; James Graff/Paris...
...Sheik Majed al-Sabah, 35, a member of the Kuwaiti royal family. His mother Sheikha Amthal al-Ahmed al-Sabah is the favorite sister of Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti Emir, and his uncle Saad al-Abdallah al-Salim al-Sabah is the country's Prime Minister...