27 August 2008, 8:36 am
Trying to find Abu Dhabi’s newest hotel, at an obscure address to the east of Salam Street, my taxi driver kept insisting there was nothing there but desert. He was almost right – even Google Earth shows the area as a bare stretch of sand. But after a few turns into small, partly formed side str... read more
27 August 2008, 8:05 am
"After 38 years as a professor in the History Department at Rutgers-Newark, where I introduced courses on Central Asia, the History of Islamic Civilization, the Ottoman Empire, the Modern Middle East, the History of Iran, among others, I had planned to retire at the end of the Spring/ 2008 semester.... read more
26 August 2008, 9:17 pm
Nadine Krempa has been hired as assistant principal at Lower Dauphin High School. Krempa has served as a guid ance counselor at the high school since 2004. She previ ously was an English teacher at Lower Dauphin High School and Lower Dauphin Middle School.... read more
26 August 2008, 3:11 pm
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A possible sell-off by General Motors of its Hummer brand is raising interest among investors from the Middle East. Two different Gulf-area investors have come forward as potential purchasers of Hummer, according to General Motors' Middle East managing director.... read more
26 August 2008, 5:40 am
East Allegheny residents celebrated the opening of the new $21 million Logan Middle School. "We definitely needed it," North Versailles Township Commissioner Bryan Dull said at Saturday's ribbon-cutting. "(Westinghouse Elementary School) was definitely on its last leg."... read more
26 August 2008, 4:34 am
Israel has nearly doubled settlement construction activity in the occupied West Bank since 2007, a report by the rights group Peace Now says. The report on settlement expansion coincided with the 18th visit by Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, to the Middle East, on Tuesday.... read more
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