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...really hard to get in as a legacy, athlete, or for that matter, minority, without the recommendations, grades, and scores," said Mecca Nelson '92, president of the Black Students Association...
They are, strangely, the same person: Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian (of the holy places of Mecca and Medina), a form of address he prefers to Your Majesty. And the difference between the profligate prince and the cautious King reflects something more than the aging of the young hell raiser into a 69-year-old monarch whose 275-lb. bulk has so weakened his knees that he has trouble walking. Some 37 years ago, Fahd went through a conversion that, though forced on him, has had a lasting effect...
...time, and educational opportunities for them were expanded. But the overthrow of the Westernizing Shah of Iran by the Ayatullah Khomeini's followers in 1979 froze the budding trend toward liberalization. Later that year, the royal family was shocked when 250 armed religious extremists occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Their defeat took two weeks and cost 229 lives. Suddenly the regime became more devout. Executions were stepped up. And the mutawa, the religious police, gained greater influence. Its members patrol the streets carrying slender sticks and striking transgressors, such as women who show too much skin or shopkeepers...
...marks the beginning of the new Cambridge, a cluster of high-tech firms with names like BASF Bioresearch, Transkaryotic Therapies, and Kurzweil. But next door to the MIT plasma fusion center, at 240 Albany St., lies a complex of two trailers that seems oddly misplaced in this new industrial mecca...
...Arab gulf leaders, Fahd is now most vulnerable to charges he is a Western puppet. Shi'ite Muslims have been disputing Saudi custodianship of the holy sites of Mecca and Medina as illegitimate. The presence of foreign forces risks sowing the seeds of long-term agitation to unseat the house of Saud, though the presence of a pan-Arab force will take much of the onus off Fahd...