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Having claimed victory in the war with Israel, Hizballah is already mobilizing to win the peace. Almost as soon as the cease-fire went into effect last Monday, Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah went on television to promise that the Party of God would give $10,000 to all those whose homes were damaged or destroyed and that Hizballah would rebuild or repair the homes itself. And Nasrallah's aides have dispatched a corps of engineers to survey war-torn areas. Its members show up wearing Hizballah yellow vests and matching baseball caps that say JIHAD OF CONSTRUCTION...
...West can play The Son of the Sheik's score-which he arranged himself-in perfect sync with the action with hardly a glance at the screen. "It's like a comfortable old sweater," he says. "You just slip into it and drift off." He doesn't mind if his audience (which on this rainy night numbers 10) does the same. If he thinks anyone's getting too dozy, he says, "I'll embellish the score, put in some funny improvised bits...
...Sunshine-Coast resort asked if the Wests could screen "something nostalgic" for a coach load of travel agents. They pulled out Son of the Sheik-and had an instant hit. Three months later the theater went all-silent, and the organ (whose pipes "speak" through a vent from a side room) has hardly had a quiet moment since. As well as the Thursday-night show, West runs an annual silent-film festival and puts on extra screenings by request-earlier today, for a group of New Zealand golfers whose game was rained...
...cities many times. His knowledge of Lebanon's roads is matched only by his devotion to Hizballah. I would have trusted no other driver to bring me safely past the Israeli jets bombing our road. But fleeing Lebanon in a car decorated with the photograph of Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah while listening to Manar radio's "support the resistance" call-in chat show gave new meaning to the word surreal...
Over the past three years, Emaar Properties, an outfit in the United Arab Emirates, has become one of the world's leading real estate developers. Emaar was founded in 1997 by ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum to lead the Dubai construction boom. The 70/30 business-government partnership, run by chairman Mohammed Ali Alabbar, started taking its expertise on the road in 2002, achieving a market cap worth $20 billion. Currently, in addition to constructing Burj Dubai, touted as the world's tallest skyscraper, Alabbar is busy with undertakings from hotels in Miami to a convention center in Hyderabad...