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...Contemporary political Islam first exploded onto the world stage in 1979 with the Iranian revolution, which destabilized the politics of the Islamic world for almost two decades. That outcome was caused, in part, by the fact that the authoritarianism of Iran's pro-Western monarch, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, tolerated no democratic challenge to his regime...
Shaddup already! Being a proper Englishman, not to mention general manager of the posh Monarch Hotel in the Georgetown section of Washington, George Terpilowski would never think of using such language. But Terpilowski, and dozens of other service providers across the country, would dearly love...
...course, a little human kindness comes in short supply when things get choppy. Consider a three-day power outage in Georgetown that played havoc with the Monarch's air conditioning over a steamy June weekend. It created textbook examples of good and bad guest behavior. There was the jerk who spent 15 minutes screaming for a cooler room--hey, was that you? The obnoxious one ultimately got what he asked for. But so did the guest who simply requested to be relocated. The only difference was 14 minutes of unpleasantness for everyone in the hotel lobby. "That kind of rudeness...
...original purpose may have been to quiz the great king, but it was the torrid love affair between the wise and powerful Israelite ruler and the mysterious monarch from the south that everyone remembers. Their legendary romance, celebrated in both Bible and Koran, begat epic poetry, Hollywood extravaganzas, musical works by George Frideric Handel and Charles Gounod and, according to Ethiopian tradition, an African dynasty that endured until Haile Selassie was deposed...
...original purpose may have been to quiz the great king, but it was the torrid love affair between the wise and powerful Israelite ruler and the mysterious monarch from the south that everyone remembers. Their legendary romance, celebrated in both Bible and Koran, begat epic poetry, Hollywood extravaganzas, musical works by George Frideric Handel and Charles Gounod and, according to Ethiopian tradition, an African dynasty that endured until Haile Selassie was deposed...