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Stability is not necessarily a virtue. But a Saudi Arabia that "convulses" in the direction of greater Islamic extremism would be terrifying. In the short term, the price of oil would surely rise, as it did after the Iranian revolution of 1979. The Saudi holy cities of Mecca and Medina are the destination for millions of Muslim pilgrims each year. They could easily become the rallying point for the sort of global jihad that could quickly turn into a clash of civilizations. For now, that is an unlikely prospect; the Saudi royal family has deep reserves of loyalty, and Abdullah...
...bookstore—Atherton says he is considering the name “Ten O’Clock Scholar,” but has not yet decided—is just the newest member of the rare book mecca hidden at 5 JFK St. along with a collection of dentists and the office of “Car Talk,” a popular radio show...
Initially, Harvard’s reputation as an academic mecca seemed a perfect opportunity to lure the circling packs of media. The headlines would sell papers. Dan DiMaggio ’03 argues that “here’s this place known for progressive scientific breakthroughs, but ultimately it is supremely immoral in not granting everybody within it an equal voice...
Take the free massage I got Tuesday afternoon in Microsoft's Marriott Mecca (I was waiting for interviews, I swear). It was all going so well until the masseuse finished up with the words "and that's your pat on the back from Microsoft." It could not have been a creepier moment if I'd turned round to discover it was Bill Gates with the magic fingers...
...Atef, who serves bin Laden as both a military commander and personal security chief. Al-Zawahiri has with him in Afghanistan his wife and their children. He has told an interviewer that they understand their stay there to be similar to the Prophet Muhammad's Hegira, or migration from Mecca to Medina...