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This Aladdin is no prince in disguise. He is an anonymous thief, a homeless ghetto kid in the imperial city of Agrabah, ruled by a flustery Sultan and his Vincent Price-y adviser Jafar. On the streets Aladdin meets the Sultan's daughter Jasmine, who has rejected every royal suitor in the Middle East. Love and ambition smite Aladdin; a thirst for adventure seizes Jasmine. In fact, each of the main characters seeks freedom: Aladdin from poverty, Jasmine from her regal confinement, the Sultan from Jafar's silky domination, and the Genie from an eternity in the lamp...
THEY WERE COMRADES-IN-ARMS AND CO-COMMANDers of the Persian Gulf War, but Prince Khaled bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia has now issued some fighting words about his old friend General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. At issue is Schwarzkopf's current best seller, It Doesn't Take a Hero, which General Khaled has read and found riddled with "inaccuracies and slanted remarks." In an unusually open gesture for a member of the Saudi royal family, the prince released a public statement accusing the general of exaggerating his own role during the ) conflict ("One has to wonder whether there...
Rosovsky, though, was reluctant to conjecture about the mythical Linsky. "It would be more likely 'Harvard-Sultan of Brunei,'" he says...
...Splendors, local architect Louis Pounders recreated a sultan's palace, complete with the asymmetric arrangement of rooms one would find in a structure completed over several generations. "There is a sense of mystery about ((Turkish)) architecture," says Pounders. "I tried to breathe that into the design." Banded arches spring from Islamic columns, windows are scrimmed with haremesque screens, walls are painted to resemble the colorful Iznik tiles renowned throughout the former empire...
Morgenthau has also been taking a tough line with another U.S. ally in the region, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates. "Abu Dhabi has been promising cooperation for a year, but we've gotten nothing out of them," the district attorney said last week. His frustration is understandable: Zayed, now the owner of the tattered remains of B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi's erstwhile $20 billion banking empire, has placed 18 of the bank's top officials -- all of them potential witnesses who could help explain the workings...