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...This hazy request (or was it a warning?) came during a meeting earlier this week between Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Emir of Qatar, who is also Al-Jazeera's founder and primary benefactor. As is so often the case when First Amendment expectations collide with wartime diplomacy, the parameters of "acceptable censorship" seem to depend entirely upon personal perception. In this case, anyway, Powell's entreaty does not appear to have crossed any serious lines of protocol...
...past two years, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in Durham, N.C., has opened an outpost in Frankfurt, Germany, while Harvard has established research facilities in Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. And in April, Cornell announced that it would open a branch of its medical school in Qatar...
...RHYMES Quarrel in Qatar Moppin'the Floor in Ulan Bator...
...accompanied during his visit by the former US ambassador to Qatar and several Qatari officials, including the minister of foreign affairs, the minister of energy, and the chair of the state radio and television corporation...
...Qatar, which is located on a peninsula north of Saudi Arabia, has a population of about...