Word: sultan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sultan Ganji, sitting in the umpire's chair at Court 8 last week, had a small problem. Olivier Delaitre, a French tennis player of modest repute, was hammering his countryman Rodolphe Gilbert mercilessly in a first-round match. As another Gilbert forehand went beyond the chalk in the opinion of the judge on that line, Gilbert turned to Gangji and pouted, "How could that ball possibly be out?!" Gangji paused, looked beneficently down at Gilbert and said, "I don't know. It was too close for me to call...
...General Norman Schwarzkopf gazed across the table at two grim-faced Iraqi generals and calmly dictated cease-fire terms that put an end to the six-week Gulf War. Stunned to learn that the U.S.-led forces had captured more than 60,000 of his soldiers, Iraqi Lieut. General Sultan Hashim Ahmad al- Jabbari acceded to each and every condition. "His face went completely pale," Schwarzkopf later recounted. "He had had no concept of the magnitude of their defeat...
Indian Classical Music Concert. WithMaestro Ustad Alla Rakha, tabla; Ustad ZaleirHussain, tabla; Ustad Sultan Khan, sarangi; andFazal Qureshi, tabla. Paine Hall, 7:30 p.m. $15for students...
...agreement with Abu Dhabi's ruler, a principal backer of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, has given new life to the global fraud investigation of the rogue bank. Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan has agreed to allow B.C.C.I.'s No. 2 man, Swaleh Naqvi, to be extradited to the U.S. for trial on fraud charges, and to give prosecutors access to other former officers and to bank records. In turn, the U.S. has promised the sheik that he will not face criminal or civil charges in the U.S. and that a $1.5 billion lawsuit against him will...
...Omens in the forms of dreams are sought because "the interpretation of that dream, fallen like a stray spark into the brain of one out of millions of sleepers, may help to save the country or its Sovereign from disaster." Every week, a Master-Dream is sent to the Sultan, supposedly containing information crucial to the governing of the empire. The dynamics of the Palace are as mysterious as they are irrefutable, inducing terrible power struggles with no clear resolution. Mark-Alem's family has long been at odds with the institution, however, and so his appointments to the more...