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...Fahd hoped to be remembered as the great modernizer who was also a faithful servant of Islam; a pro-American leader who used the Kingdom's vast oil wealth to build schools, hospitals, roads and airports as well as to commission a vast reconstruction of Islam's holiest mosques in the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina. But many Saudis will also recall the Fahd era for the profligate lifestyle of many senior members of the royal family-and for the regime that ultimately needed the U.S. to save it from its neighbors, such as Iraq...
...that looks very much like the cable network he is about to launch. "He's a visionary," says Joel Hyatt, the attorney-entrepreneur who is his partner in the cable venture. "He's doing things that are new, daring, difficult, just as he tried to do as a public servant...
...waiting for an hour with Secretary of State Seward and Lincoln in George McClellan's house for the general to return from a wedding. When McClellan finally did come back, he simply passed the room in which the President was sitting; another half an hour went by before a servant informed Lincoln that McClellan had gone to bed. Young John Hay was enraged. "I wish here to record what I consider a portent of evil to come," he wrote in his diary as he recounted the story of what he considered an inexcusable "insolence of epaulettes." To Hay's surprise...
...began writing computer programs at the age of twelve and sold one to Apple Computer a year later. Now, at 15, Cyrille de Vignemont has become the youngest member of Jacques Chirac's government and France's most youthful civil servant ever. De Vignemont, as a special consultant to the Ministry of Civil Service and Planning, will advise Minister Hervé de Charette on the needs and hopes of French youth...
...watch a tangled legal battle over just that issue, and with good reason. Rarely has such a narrow question held such wide implications for the conduct of Government. The real issue at hand was the budget-balancing scheme of the storied Gramm-Rudman Act. Whether the Comptroller is a servant of Congress or an impartial accountant is likely to be the point on which the court will decide the law's fate...