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...Southwest sun for the past four centuries. The so- called Santa Fe look, romanced into the mainstream by Ralph Lauren, has turned into the hottest design fad in years. "People naturally want to return to the earth," explains Rachel Elizondo, owner of Santa Fe's Storyteller gallery, a mecca for decorators. "A clay pot built by hand in natural colors is a living thing...
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia likes to remain on good terms with his neighbors. That is not easy when Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is one of them. Still & angry at the Islamic republic for provoking riots during the 1987 Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia last week broke diplomatic ties with Iran. The move followed collapse of negotiations aimed at reducing the number of Iranians who will undertake this year's pilgrimage from 150,000 to 45,000 in order to help prevent new rioting...
...Iran-Iraq war. The war remains a threat not only to those two countries but to the entire gulf region. Beyond that, it has threatened a sacred element in Muslim life, the pilgrimage to Mecca. Last year 400 people died in clashes. The statements of leaders in Iran suggest that this could be repeated this year...
Suddenly the students were receiving support from deaf people across the U.S. The reason is that this 100-acre campus, only a mile northeast of Capitol Hill, is a Mecca for the hearing impaired. Since it was founded by an Act of Congress in 1864, Gallaudet has become one of the world's foremost training centers for the deaf. And yet it has never had a hearing-impaired president -- the result, say students and staff, of paternalistic attitudes by a hearing world that perpetuates the myth that deaf people cannot function on their own. Comparing today's demands by deaf...
...built around stars. Well known and well paid, cosseted and coddled, the stars eventually become almost synonymous with the institutions that employ them. Nowhere was this more true than at the elite investment firm of First Boston, where the duo of Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph Perella created a mecca for merger-and-acquisit ion advice. Owing largely to their prestige, First Boston was the busiest takeover player on Wall Street last year, handling an estimated 174 deals. Serving as masterminds in some of the biggest corporate struggles of the decade, the two men have sparred with raiders ranging from...