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Pointing to the rise of Black and Hispanic elected officials, steering committee member Nicolas A. Medina said "all these changes have occurred but the Berlin Wall at the Kennedy School is still...
...Five out of seven people are new every year," said Medina, "We haven't made much noise because of the high turnover rate...
Religion offers one obvious explanation for the bloody clash. Muslims call the Temple Mount al-Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary. It is home to both the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque and is Islam's third holiest site after Mecca and Medina. To Jews, it is the sacred spot where Solomon's Temple and later the Second Temple once stood. The adjacent Western Wall, a retaining wall from the Second Temple, is the holiest site in Judaism...
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...
...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...