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...troops in Lebanon ... Syria has become the key player in that fractured country's future ... Syrians consider Lebanon to be part of 'Greater Syria,' a vague concept of territorial grandeur that thrives more in memory than in reality. Indeed, the two countries share more than a millennium of history. Both Lebanon and Syria achieved independence in the 1940s, but cultural and family ties still bind their populations ... Says a Syrian official: 'Lebanon is the one issue on which any Syrian President would be prepared to take the greatest risk' ... At some point or another, every Lebanese faction has sought Syria...
...conspiracy theorists, the Bush Administration had tapped Wolfowitz for the job to prove that World Bank-style aid doesn't work. A satirical staff newsletter imagined that instead of bopping around Washington in a limousine, Wolfowitz would travel in an Apache helicopter. Economist Jeffrey Sachs, head of the U.N. Millennium Project to reduce global poverty, hunger and disease, questioned Wolfowitz's lack of economic and banking experience. "I have looked for evidence of Mr. Wolfowitz having development goals - I have tried to find it in his speeches, and I haven't been able to," Sachs has said. But Wolfowitz...
...existence of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (kblibrary.nic.in), a small pink building in downtown Patna, the state capital, is a wonder in itself. Inside, you'll find 250,000 books and 21,000 manuscripts, some dating back a millennium. The number and quality of Arabic and Persian manuscripts is unsurpassed in Asia, and it is all the result of the collecting passion of a late 19th century noble, Khuda Bakhsh. Priceless treasures include the only existing copy of a history?illustrated in gold and indigo?of the Uzbek Emperor Tamerlane, whose dominions once stretched from Baghdad to Bengal. There...
...expect a center of scholarly excellence. So the existence of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (kblibrary.nic.in), a small pink building in downtown Patna, the state capital, is a wonder in itself. Inside, you'll find 250,000 books and 21,000 manuscripts, some dating back a millennium. The number and quality of Arabic and Persian manuscripts is unsurpassed in Asia, and it is all the result of the collecting passion of a late 19th century noble, Khuda Bakhsh. Priceless treasures include the only existing copy of a history - illustrated in gold and indigo - of the Uzbek Emperor Tamerlane, whose...
...retailers like Zaslavsky raise sturgeon is like letting the fox raise the chickens. The caviar trade is not exactly squeaky clean, and Optimus, the parent company of Marky's, recently agreed to pay a $1 million fine for buying smuggled caviar in 1999 to meet the frenzied demand for millennium parties...