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...The glass tower is the most extreme expression of a house “open to the outside”, and most vulnerable to the sun’s rays....
...Not everyone at the dinner donated but he said it netted $80m in pledges towards ambulances, X-ray machines and other equipment for hospitals....
...When I spent a happy couple of hours pushing through the elbow-crushing medina, there was a sizzling, upbeat energy to daily life....
...The theatre of security, the airport apparatus of X-rays and layers of barriers and fences around the entrance (much of it imposed without Nouvel’s input), seems unavoidable today....
...The original polity of Medina in the Prophet’s time, moreover, was secular in that its charter protected equally the rights of Muslim and non-Muslim, who together made up the umma, or community....
...Pilgrims who had spent their savings to take this “life-changing trip” couldn’t afford Ray-Bans that cost a month’s wages....
...The one exception is Manuel Medina-Mora, head of Citigroup in Latin America, who is a few months younger than Mr Prince....
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