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...Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah was shot dead at the prince's side while entering the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. That was a chilling lesson in the dangers of power, and the quirks of fate, for the young man who two years later would inherit the throne...
...Organization found a fertile recruiting and training ground in the refugee camps that contained some 40% of the 255,000 Palestinians (plus their descendants) who had escaped to the kingdom after the West Bank was captured by the Israelis. The P.L.O. openly challenged the authority of Hussein's throne. The King finally reacted in 1970 with a brutal show of force that sent P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat and his fellow guerrillas fleeing to Lebanon. Hussein's relations with Arafat and the other Arab leaders were further strained in 1974, when an Arab conference named the P.L.O...
...program note, Coe makes the odd statement that "Hamlet avoids succession to the throne by willing his own death throughout the play because he considers he has nothing to lose by it." Hamlet is, in fact, so chameleonic that there isn't anything he does throughout the play. But Walken's Hamlet lacks range, there is little in it except harshness and choler. It needs infusions of sensitivity, intellectuality wit, irony, and especially music (of which Hamlet claims to be a master...
...major serious role of King Claudius is beyond him. Above the level of mezzo-piano his voice takes on an unpleasant ring. And he falls to imbuse the King with sufficient intelligence and efficiency. It is strange, too, that a man who has murdered his way to the throne and is hanging onto it for dear life never once appears with a crown on his head. At the end, however, his indulges in a fresh bit of business: instead of being stabbed with Hamlet's poisoned rapier, he tries to seize the weapon and fatally cuts himself in the tussle...
...business into a stable of 400 Thoroughbreds, paid $4.25 million for a 15-month-old colt. It was the highest price ever for a race horse at auction. Sangster outbid Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid el Maktoum, Dubai's Defense Minister and the heir apparent to the throne of the principality, who dropped out after offering $4 million. Sangster breezily announced he would have gone higher to get the magnificent dark bay, a son of Nijinsky II, Europe's Horse of the Year...