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...Catholic marriage with America. But we are also Muslims-we can have more than one wife." OMAR BAHLAIWA, secretary-general of the Committee for International Trade in Saudi Arabia, on the Saudi commitment to pursuing business with both the U.S. and China...
...media. In an effort to get Stanton’s approval ratings up, Sutter books the President to be a guest judge on the final episode of “American Dreamz.” Unfortunately for the President, one of the finalists on the show is Omar, a terrorist who happens to love show tunes, and who is performing on the show only so that he can blow up himself and the President in the show’s finale. Throw in Mandy Moore, a “white trash” contestant whose all sugar...
...culture,” he says. If anything, “Dreamz” simply illustrates America’s fascination with popular culture—right down to Grant’s spot-on Cowell impression. One character in the film that demonstrates this obsession is Omar, a still-learning terrorist who is supposed to infiltrate “American Dreamz,” but becomes caught up in his love of show tunes. The making of the film itself was a challenge for Weitz, who had a small budget from Universal, a 40-day shoot (the director?...
...Terra Seis. That wasn't too surprising in Tawke, where generations have watched oil seep out on the surrounding hills and turn to a slick black film in the gnawing winter cold. Sitting cross-legged on his living-room carpet over a lunch of mutton, village chief Tahir Ezeer Omar remembers that when he was 10, a German visitor told his grandfather that the oil in the hills "was like gold, that it would someday create wealth for us." The locals were unimpressed. "All we knew was that the sheep and cows kept getting stuck in the stuff," Omar says...
...Baghdad. Large oil finds in the territory "would bolster the sense on the street that the Kurds can survive on their own," says the Western consultant who did not want to be named. Tawke's residents are focused on more basic problems these days. Over the mutton, Normann asks Omar, the chief, and the rig's star worker, Khadir, how the company can help the villagers. Omar says they need a water well and 50 desks for the tiny village school. Away from the chief, Normann says he knows that such goodwill can help secure the rig's safety from...