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After spending more than two years researching my book Twilight in the Desert, I am convinced that it is highly improbable that Middle Eastern oil--and particularly Saudi Arabian oil--can grow to those far higher levels. Instead there is a risk that Saudi Arabia's oil output and the rest of the Middle East's oil supply may start to decline...
Matthew Simmons is the author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons...
This time, there will be no tie, no cannily incongruous headline. If they are deadlocked after 60 minutes, the oldest foes in college football will battle into overtime, into the Connecticut twilight, to crown the Ivy League’s undisputed champ. The memory of 1968, an unparalelled event in the storied history of The Game, endures, but if Harvard “beats” the Elis in 2007, it will actually have to beat them...
...Tweddle and his allies are currently focused on saving an untouched stretch of estuary near Able UK's yard that is a refuge for seals and other wildlife. Some evenings, Tweddle likes to drive the short distance from his house to the edge of the lagoon, where, in the twilight, flames burst from refinery chimneys like apparitions...
That was 1956, when 20th Century Fox released The King and I, starring Yul Brynner as the King of Siam. It was an annus mirabilis for hairless potentates but also the twilight of their brief golden age--the last time heads of state were not synonymous with heads of hair...