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Mail Call: An Unequal Society.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

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Our Aug. 6 report on the "new" U.A.E. left readers dissatisfied. "Success in business isn't enough to create a great nation," wrote one. Another said, "Unfairness, injustice and anger are being grown there."

The Real Middle East

Your Aug. 6 cover story, "The New Middle East," did not transmit the whole picture about the United Arab Emirates. Building towers, golf courses, financial centers, free zones and the like are doable, given money and good leadership. But all that is dust that blinds the eyes. Underneath that beautiful crust lies an old, "Saddamian" judiciary system: no freedom of speech or public expression of opinion, discrimination, rising and ...

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