Baker brought in an army of election lawyers from Washington, who went to work in a large conference room nearby, sharing a giant table as a desk and sitting on folding chairs.

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"In the old days, Jordan was built on favoritism--something we call 'wasta, ' political and business mafias and corruption, " the king says, sitting in the living room of his large, heavily guarded home in a suburb of Amman (he decided to forgo a palace).

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