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...popular touch can be useful as Abdullah goes about tackling entrenched problems. During Fahd's 20-year reign, government spending soared, while oil revenues declined from $40 per bbl. in 1980 to about $20 today. Abdullah has set out to shake the kingdom of its dependence on oil, which produces 70% of the nation's wealth. He has spearheaded the most significant attempt at economic restructuring in the kingdom's history, opening negotiations with American and other Western energy powers on a $100 billion foreign-investment project to develop natural gas and build related electricity and water-desalination plants...
...Larry Summers, shake, stir, let sit five to ten years and voila, right? Unfortunately the chemistry is not quite so straightforward...
...before commending Underwood on his long career as an actor and his humanitarian work. The problem was that Summers did all of this with his back to the other three men on stage, even while speaking directly to them. Then after he finished his words, Underwood moved in to shake his hand. Instead, Summers merely handed the microphone to Lewis and walked off stage, prompting at least one section of students...
When Harvard played its tournament-clinching game on Friday, the team sportsmanly suppressed its celebration until the final buzzer and, after a moment of celebration, lined up to shake hands. By the time the Ivy championship plate was presented, Yale had plenty of time to politely exit to the locker room...
Abdullah is worried about U.S. unilateralism. "America cannot be the sole policeman of the world," he says. The Palestinian problem still rankles, too. In an oblique warning to Washington, he says that Arafat's removal "will shake the Arab and Muslim world and destroy the credibility of anybody who was involved in this move." But Abdullah's peace initiative, which Arab diplomats say could be considered at next month's Arab Summit in Beirut, is a sign that he's ready to play a constructive role. In a "statement of vision" being pushed by Saudi diplomats as a "signal...