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Why is the president of the United States entertaining Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, Sheik Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at Camp David when his own State Department has singled out the Sheik’s homeland, the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), for its continuing violations of human rights? Abu Dhabi is one of seven oil-rich — and anti-Israel states — in the U.A.E. Using its massive sovereign wealth fund of over $875 billion, Abu Dhabi has been gobbling up American assets, buying considerable stakes in U.S. businesses like Citigroup, the Carlyle Group, Advanced Micro Devices, and Toll Brother and is now bidding on...

Ted Koppel has been airing a segment for months on each edition of "Nightline" that lists U.S. military fatalities in Iraq. On Friday, Koppel and the "Nightline" team will turn the entire show over to naming those killed in combat in that conflict. "We'd been doing something called 'In the Line of Duty,'" Koppel said. "We were all beginning to feel it as sort of humdrum - it wasn't having any impact." The sense among the show's staff was that the deaths were seen as mere numbers - two here, three there. "Nightline" executive producer Leroy Sievers approached Koppel with...