Mike at his hyperbolic best.  I am fascinated by Dubai.  My fellow organizer and housemate is in the sinister paradise right now, actually--- her family, palestinians displaced in 48, had some members become rich in lebanon, and are having a great big wedding in dubai.  Wish I could have gone with her.  <div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <<a href="http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2635">http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2635 </a>> New Left Review 41, September-October 2006 MIKE DAVIS FEAR AND MONEY IN DUBAI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </blockquote></div>