The younger generation, at last? (original) (raw)
A quietly competent new interior minister in the desert kingdom
IN OTHER places sand trickles through an hourglass at a steady rate. Saudi Arabia has a lot of sand, but it tends to get gummed up with oil or stuck in prickly religious conservatism. Yet now and then something jogs the glass, and those grains of Saudi sand briefly unclog.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The younger generation, at last?”
From the November 10th 2012 edition
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