Word: talal
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...Turner and Rupert Murdoch are no longer the world's most eccentric media moguls. MICHAEL JACKSON has announced a deal to create Kingdom Entertainment, "one of the best global entertainment multinational organizations in the world," with PRINCE AL-WALEED BIN TALAL BIN ABDULAZIZ AL-SAUD, nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. The Prince, who seems to favor working with troubled operations (he already owns part of Euro Disney and London's Canary Wharf), says he wants to provide the world with family-oriented entertainment, from theme parks to concert tours, including Jackson's. For now at least, attracting publicity...
...from a passing car, cutting down Lapid and his eldest son. Just a few yards from where their bodies lay, bloodstains marked the spot where 48 hours earlier a group of Lapid's fellow settlers had stopped a car for no reason and shot into the passenger seat, killing Talal al-Bakri, a Palestinian vegetable seller and himself the father of 13 children. The eye-for-an-eye vengeance is making a mockery of what is supposed to be a new era of peaceful coexistence...
Prominent former custodians of public trust can also help defuse image problems that threaten to snarl deals. For example, Carlyle became the adviser to Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal in his $590 million investment in Citicorp in 1991. The firm subsequently teamed with France's state-owned Thomson-CSF to outbid U.S. defense giants for the missile and aircraft divisions of LTV last year. Such global connections can be controversial. "The one significant problem for Carlyle is that they've been on the foreign side of controversial transactions," says a Washington lobbyist and rival dealmaker. But Carlyle...
According to Dr. Talal A. Chatila, assistant professor of pediatrics and member of the Children's Hospital department of immunology, doctors also use local application of corticol steroids--not to be confused with anabolic steroids, used for "bulking...
Moreover, it is completely unfair to make slanderous inferences that do not tell us the whole story. Why is Talal Debs a bad person simply because he is the president of the Porcellian? I happen to know him, and while he is not my closest friend, I wouldn't call him a bad or evil person. Based upon the level of journalism displayed in this piece, one wonders why the authors did not step forward as the idiots that they obviously...