Word: successional
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In Uday's sprawling al-Abit palace on the banks of the Tigris, U.S. soldiers are sorting through rubble, putting together matching pairs of Uday's many shoes to give to Iraqi workmen. In a dark recess of one of the complex's stone-lined corridors is a steel door...
After attending a succession of boarding schools, Watkins arrived at her fourth and final school, New York City’s Hunter College High School, where she rose to the top of her class and eventually became the editor of the school’s magazine.
The walls of Lahib Nouman's home don't just talk, they howl. They scream in terror, shout with rage, moan in pain and sob with frustration. All the emotions overloading this tiny woman's brutalized mind she projects onto the walls of her living room. She scrawls on them...
"The Saudis feel most nervous about U.S. hostility," says another diplomat. "They don't trust the neo-conservatives, and are really afraid that in the name of reform, Washington will interfere in the domestic situation, even try to manipulate the succession in the monarchy."
Arab nationalism has been wilting almost since it first blossomed during the Ottoman Empire. Britain and France disappointed the Arabs - betrayed, Arabs would say - by preventing the establishment of true Arab independence after World War I. The Arab defeat in their 1948 war to prevent the emergence of Israel had...