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A long walk
Jan 5th 2006
From The Economist print edition
SAUDI ARABIA is hard to pin down. Recent book titles, strong on words such as crisis, threat, secrets and terror, seem to suggest that this is a dark and desperate place. Newspaper headlines echo the gloom with reports of bombings and shoot-outs.…
