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...United Arab Emirates and Oman have routinely allowed U.S. planes to come and go and may see a buildup of U.S. forces in the event of a war, while one of the biggest U.S. contingents in the Gulf is at Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan Airforce Base (P-SAB) near Riyadh. The Saudis have spoken out strongly against a war, but have indicated that they will allow the use of P-SAB if the United Nations authorizes military force against Saddam's regime. But because of Saudi sensitivities and because of the tactical geography of the region, Kuwait rather than...
Bush assuaged Abdullah's concerns, but Sept. 11 raised tensions anew. U.S. grumbling about a lack of Saudi cooperation in the war on terrorism quickly escalated into calls in Congress for Washington to consider reducing its presence at the Prince Sultan Air Base (P-SAB in military jargon), where the U.S. has 6,000 Air Force personnel patrolling Iraqi skies. The problem was initial Saudi hesitation in allowing the Pentagon to use a new U.S.-built command-and-control center at P-SAB to conduct the drive against bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan. Known as the Combined...
...classes at Manhattan's famous Steps studio. "The classes were open to the public," she explains. "So it was basically like 40-year old women and me!" Weiss chose a more conventional pre-professional path during the summers, attending programs at the San Francisco Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and SAB...
...another pre-professional ballerina, the decision to focus on college came sooner, and more definitively. Allison E. Lane '02, who originates from Oregon, studied at SAB during her junior and senior year of high school. As the official school of New York City Ballet, SAB generally increases a young dancer's chances of getting into a major company, but not without discrimination against students who desire a college education. "In the school I was at," Lane explains, "it was the type of thing where if they knew you were going to college, they might not consider you for a position...
...While at SAB, Lane attended the Professional Children's School in New York, and always took academics very seriously. When she was offered a spot in both the Miami City Ballet and Harvard in the spring of her senior year, Lane's decision was relatively clear-cut. "I just never saw myself dancing professionally," she says. "If you go that route, it becomes your entire life, and there were just so many other things I wanted to do. I was even hesitant to defer for a year to dance, just because I wanted to be prepared academically...