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...DIED. SHEIK MAKTOUM BIN RASHID AL-MAKTOUM, 62, pragmatic, business-minded Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and emir of Dubai who oversaw his city-state's transformation from a minor trading post to a modern metropolis; of a suspected heart attack; in Australia. With brothers Mohammed?who succeeds him as emir?and Hamdan, the avid thoroughbred fan founded Godolphin, one of horse racing's most winning stables...
...think we caught Jose Padilla, who was sent to the U.S. to explode a dirty bomb and spread radiation throughout an American city? He was sent by a couple of captured al-Qaeda big shots, Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, whom we interrogated using techniques that Senators have ostentatiously decried and that sparked the McCain amendment. You connect the dots. And then there were the two attacks thwarted by the NSA eavesdropping: a plot to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge and a plot to bomb pubs and train stations in Britain. Historians will have to tell you about...
...companies and their lawyers control everything, including the CIA, which turns out to be an incredibly effective and diabolical agency. In Syriana, not only does the CIA assassinate foreign leaders-which is banned by Executive Order-but impeccably so. The target is, of course, the honorable nationalist sheik who wants to rein in the oil companies for the good of his people. As those who have been following real life know, this is hilarious...
...Sunday, Dec. 4 Opportunes-Pitches Winter Concert 2005. The Harvard Opportunes and the Radcliffe Pitches perform their annual joint a capella concert. Sanders Theatre. 3 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $12 general admission, $7 students. (AMF)WBOS Holiday Show with Carbon Leaf, Duncan Sheik, Brandi Carlile. Indie rock band Carbon Leaf will perform from 3-4:30 p.m. and the repertoire will include the single “Life Less Ordinary.” An old favorite, Duncan Sheik—best known for the ’90?...
When they got to Geneva, Gaghan learned that "all the business of the Middle East is conducted in hotel lobbies." Schmoozing with oil traders and arms dealers at the Hotel Intercontinental, he spotted former Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, still one of the world's most powerful people, and sent him a note requesting an interview, revealing what Gaghan calls the "pathetic ineptitude of my methodology...