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...“Riyadh was trying to avoid precisely this kind of scenario,” said H.A. Hellyer, a Middle East expert at the Royal United Services Institute in London....
...Nonetheless in Emma, Jane Austen warned us that a picnic is often a “hit-and-miss situation”, and it was certainly a miss with poor Dr Aziz in A Passage to India with his elaborate picnic near the Marabar...
...“There are members of the old regime that are very pleased and are trying to take advantage,” said H.A. Hellyer, an Egypt expert at the Brookings Institute....
...h/t Willem Buiter)....
...Prince Bandar’s Washington ties are legendary – he was so close to the Bush family, particularly George H.W. Bush, that he earned the nickname of Bandar Bush....
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