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Here's Looking at You, King

Ahmed Benchemsi had a playfully subversive thought: Why not publish the king's salary? It's his readers' taxes that pay for it, after all, and the sum -- approved by parliament -- is publicly available information. So TelQuel, the Moroccan newsweekly that Benchemsi publishes, ran a 12-page spread on the king's pay (roughly $50,000 a month) and his palace's staggering annual operating budget (about $270 million) in its first issue of the year.

ANDRÉS MARTINEZ

February 16, 2005

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