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FRANKS: These guys want to not be found--they want very badly to not be found. And they're in a country where we have a lot of snow or a lot of sand, and on some days we have both, depending on where you are...We are taking our time and will take as long as it takes...
Since Sept. 11, Abdullah has sent clear signals - albeit in the quiet, gradual Saudi way - that Saudis must get their heads out of the sand and become part of the global village. One after another, he called in groups of Saudi imams, teachers, journalists and businessmen and warned them against taking Saudi Arabia's puritanical brand of religion, known as Wahhabism, to unacceptable extremes. Though not to Washington's complete satisfaction, Abdullah began tightening up on potential terrorist financing, scrutinizing Islamic charities and freezing some suspect bank accounts - an explosive issue in a culture that fiercely guards privacy...
...that such a move would compromise the country's neutrality. The government is hoping the same open-minded attitude will lead to a "yes" vote on March 3. "If it doesn't," Nordmann says, "the world would not understand why we insist on keeping our head buried in the sand." Given Switzerland's geography, that is particularly hard...
...many good sources on the Middle East. Although teachers may assign books exclusively hostile to Israel, you are always free to explore the other side of the story. To see how widespread the problem Harvard students may be facing is, see Martin Kramer’s Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. Bernard Lewis’ most recent book, What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Responses offers a terse, deeply knowledgeable historical analysis of his subject...
...with homosexuality denied them proper funerals. And so she decided to initiate her own funerary pageants. “Written in Sand” is about the process of mourning. Viewers enter a candle-lit room and write the names of loved ones who have died of AIDS in sand on the ground. She has also continued to work with feminist themes. “Relaxation Room” is a commentary on the sanitization of childbirth and consists of three large photographs of a baby’s bloody head emerging from woman’s vagina during labor...