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...Islamic law. Now, Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah can expect an especially warm reception when he travels to Washington next month. The U.S. had been pushing Kuwait, one of its staunchest allies in the Middle East, to allow its female citizens to participate in political life. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the Gulf that entirely excludes women from the political process, although full equality is still a long way off in most of the region. Opponents of the Kuwaiti reform lament that the country will soon lose its traditions. "This vote is against the will...
...career, but, according to his mother Leslye Winkelman Lyons, he's interested in "10 other things as well," so this summer he plans to move on from stunt work and attend another of Pali Overnight Adventures' programs, this one in culinary arts, run by a former chef to the Saudi royal family. As he did last summer, Lyons will spend his mornings receiving special instruction and his afternoons participating in his choice of such activities as paintball and swimming. His mother says she appreciates his being able to do "kid" things while still reaping the expertise of professionals...
...late to put the genie back in the bottle. Cases of polio genetically consistent with the Nigerian strain had begun popping up, in succession, in more than 10 neighboring countries, including Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire and Sudan. Last November the same virus appeared in Saudi Arabia, two months before the hajj, when 2 million Muslims from around the world descended on Mecca and then returned to their home countries, perhaps carrying more than just their memories with them. Investigators are still looking into the possibility that the outbreak last week in Indonesia was linked...
...pictures of women in Saudi Arabia...
...limited capacity for mayhem. The background and motives of the attackers remain fuzzy, and it is not known whether they were attempting to exploit the growing political tension in the country, or were simply imitating the anti-Western violence that has become endemic in countries such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Thus far, there is no sign that the sudden upsurge in terrorism will have anything like the disastrous impact on Egyptian tourism caused by the gunmen who killed 58 foreigners in a 1997 attack at an ancient temple in Luxor. That was the last assault in a five-year...