那么大的卫星电视灶？我笑s了。Knowing wrote:哈，我还很金斧头的以为是卫星电视捏。又金斧头的说，那么高打球不怕风大么？我们在四十层楼顶层会议室开会，风大的时候还觉的晃悠。。。。
不过Knowing的观察力还是很强滴， 如果我不知道他们有个网球场，我就会看不见那个盘盘。风大的问题我倒还没想过， 我就老想着会不会腿软。
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我被那些要我们热爱奥运的宣传弄得非常讨厌奥运。
而且小K说得对，那么高的地方得多大的风，球不得被吹得掉个满地。我好奇放狗查人， 是不是这个Prince Bandar bin Sultan，前沙特驻美的大使？ 谁说他房子五米就能买下来的？ 他在Aspen的豪宅要价$135米！ 我还记得去年有这么起轰动一时的事儿，说这是世界上最贵的豪宅。
嘻嘻，还有人家拿出来挥霍的金子可不是自家的油钱，你当人家那么好宰啊？ 人家的帐户每年有英国国防公司自动进账贿赂。 猜猜是多少？ 很果汁的数目！
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6728773.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6260850.stm
嘻嘻，还有人家拿出来挥霍的金子可不是自家的油钱，你当人家那么好宰啊？ 人家的帐户每年有英国国防公司自动进账贿赂。 猜猜是多少？ 很果汁的数目！
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6728773.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6260850.stm
我又听了一遍，下面是确凿信息和数字：
对，就是Prince Bandar，沙特国王的兄弟，前驻美大使。
他的房子是210，000平方尺。
他和夫人带两个客人来吃饭，12个保镖，12个CIA保镖，有的在门外执勤，端机关枪。
餐费2000刀，付8000刀，小费费率百分之三百。
节目链接（The Story With Dick Gordon From American Public Radio）:
http://thestory.org/archive/?b_start:int=10
Thursday, March 13 2008的节目，后半段，Listener Follow-up: May I take your order?，在大约37分钟的时候开始。
对，就是Prince Bandar，沙特国王的兄弟，前驻美大使。
他的房子是210，000平方尺。
他和夫人带两个客人来吃饭，12个保镖，12个CIA保镖，有的在门外执勤，端机关枪。
餐费2000刀，付8000刀，小费费率百分之三百。
节目链接（The Story With Dick Gordon From American Public Radio）:
http://thestory.org/archive/?b_start:int=10
Thursday, March 13 2008的节目，后半段，Listener Follow-up: May I take your order?，在大约37分钟的时候开始。
这个沙特王子哪儿敢带小老婆出门，他老婆的身份比他可贵重多了。 伊是个真正的公主(爹是沙特国王King Faisal)，他只是个王子跟小老婆生的孩子，当年他爹都不认他。
Faisal's daughter, Haifa, is married to his nephew Bandar ibn Sultan, the former long-serving Saudi ambassador to the United States and current Saudi national security advisor. Bandar, the son of an African concubine, had been all but disowned by his father Sultan at the time, due to his perceived inferior lineage. Faisal, however, forced Sultan to recognize Bandar as a legitimate prince by giving Bandar his own daughter's hand in marriage, thus breaking a major taboo in Saudi society at the time.
果汁果汁！
http://www.harpercollins.com.au/global_ ... 9867&tc=cx
http://www.harpercollins.com.au/global_ ... 9867&tc=cx
The Prince
The Secret Story of the World's Most Intriguing Royal, Prince Bandar bin Sultan
by William Simpson
Chapter Excerpt
Chapter One
Who is Prince Bandar?
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
T. E. Lawrence,
"The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"1
Fifty-seven years ago, inside a traditional Bedouin tent, a young servant girl gave birth to her only child, a boy. But for one detail, the birth of a child to a young mother of indifferent, even insignificant status, deep in the desert, would be of import to very few. That singular detail, however, was important, for the father of the infant boy was Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, a member of the royal family and son of the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al-Saud―known in the West as Ibn Saud.
At the time, Saudi Arabia itself was still in its infancy, for not until 1932 did Ibn Saud unify the diverse tribal regions in the center of the Arabian peninsula, rename the country the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and name himself as its first king.*
The formation of modern Saudi Arabia did not come about easily. In the early nineteenth century, members of the Al-Saud tribe ruled Najd, a central and physically isolated region, which included the holy cities of Mecca and Al Medina. In 1811, the Ottoman sultan asked Muhammad Ali, ruler of Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire, to depose Al-Saud. Ali sent two of his sons to invade Najd, and in 1818, his second son, Ibrahim Pasha, captured Dir'iyyah, the capital. Its ruler, Abdallah ibn Saud, was sent into exile, first to Cairo and then to Constantinople, where he was beheaded. With his death, so too died the first Saudi state.
A second Saudi state emerged in 1824, when Turki bin Abdallah bin Saud bin Abdul Aziz bin Muhammad Al-Saud, ousted the Egyptians from Najd and established Riyadh as his capital. Although this second state prospered initially, internal disputes saw the leadership change hands within the family until Faisal bin Turki took charge in 1843. Under Ibn Turki's leadership, order prevailed. Yet his death in 1865 marked the return of disorder and strife. In 1891, the Ottoman Rashidi tribe defeated that of the Al-Saud, forcing its leader, Abdul Rahman―grandfather of the present King Abdullah and great grandfather of Prince Bandar―to flee into what is now Kuwait. He was exiled with his family, including his son Abdul Aziz. With Rahman's exile, the second Saudi state came to an end.
Abdul Aziz, who would become known as Ibn Saud, spent the remainder of his childhood in Kuwait, where he attended the daily governing councils, majlis of the emir of Kuwait,* from whom he learned about the wider world. Seeking to restore the kingdom to the Al-Saud, Abdul Aziz set out in 1901 with a small number of warriors intent on recapturing Riyadh. Luck and audacity favored him when, on the night of January 15, 1902, he scaled Riyadh's walls with only twenty men and laid in wait for the Rashidi governor, Ajlan. The following morning, Abdul Aziz and his raiding party attacked, killing Ajlan and launching a campaign that would ultimately give rise to the third Saudi state. Over the next thirty years, Ibn Saud would gradually seize control of each of the tribal regions. In 1932, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was born.
Though born into the royal family of Ibn Saud, Bandar bin Sultan's future was far from certain. His mother was Khizaran, a dark-skinned sixteen-year-old commoner from the province of Asir, located at the southern end of Saudi Arabia. It was a desolate place of vast plains and salt marshes, hostile mountains, and deep ravines. Its seaports, however, had allowed centuries of interaction with both Yemen and the Horn of Africa.
Though his father, Prince Sultan, was one of the Sudairi Seven,* the seven sons of Ibn Saud and Princess Hussa bint Ahmed al-Sudairi, one of King Abdul Aziz's favored wives, the boy's birth was inauspicious. Bandar is now quite blunt about his place in the Saudi royal family, saying, "I was conceived out of wedlock and my mother was a concubine."
Although his dark-skinned mother was but a servant in his father's household and they were unmarried, Islamic law protects illegitimate children if recognized by their father, and Bandar's father acknowledged the birth. "My father recognized the pregnancy of my mother before I was born," recounted Bandar. "That is the reason why I was born in King Abdul Aziz's tented camp in Taif. He personally, King Abdul Aziz, named me with four other kids." That naming by the king effectively established the boy's pedigree as royal. Yet there was still a separation―a distancing of the prince from the other sons born to Prince Sultan's many wives.
The birth of a child to an Arab prince and a concubine, though perhaps romantic, was not without pathos. Bandar's mother had been a servant girl before becoming a concubine to the twenty-year-old Prince Sultan, who had been appointed governor of Riyadh in 1947. Bandar remembers, "My mother was not related to any tribal leader that would provide me with power, nor was she from a royal family." Having lived in the Asir Province of Saudi Arabia, which nestles across from Africa, Khizaran was darker skinned, a feature she passed on to her son Bandar, who is noticeably darker than his brothers. It has been a common misconception in the U.S. press that the prince's mother was African. Bandar often derives curious enjoyment from knowing the truth of a situation while the media speculates endlessly and wrongly about him, and he has made no attempt to explain the geographical background to his mother's heritage. He confessed, "I coyly let that stand for a long time, because as you know by now, I enjoy knowing something that the whole world is talking about mistakenly and I know that it is not true."
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我把果汁段子上色啦。
