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Clarence Dillon was portrayed in the press as a model investment banker, but his public image veiled a darker reality.

The incongruous scene, with veiled women clinking glasses, signals the changes under way and in the conservative kingdom, home to Islam's holiest sites, as deep-seated taboos are gently prodded.

She was a tall, handsome woman no older than sixty, dressed in a black crepe gown with a crisp white collar and cuffs, and a veiled cap pinned on top of her head.

This thinly veiled attack on American supporters of Israel sparked widespread outrage, and Mr. Roberts’s subsequent apology for his poor choice of words did little to quell it.

House Republicans are going after GOP senators who stand to collect millions of dollars courtesy of a veiled provision within a bill seeking to end the government shutdown.