Every day that I was in Amman I would start the day by reading through The Jordan Times, which is the main Jordanian newspaper. It is not a huge newspaper, but one that contains a daily extended international section that would put most U.S. newspapers to shame. While, not surprisingly, the paper focuses on events in the Middle East, there are stories every day about events in Asia, Africa and Latin America. True to Jordan's role in the world, the paper carries out a delicate balancing act in its presentation of events in the broader Middle East and especially in its coverage of Israel. While certainly not friendly to Israel, the paper does not engage in lengthy, unwarranted rants about Israeli foreign policy and is actually pretty balanced (and certainly much more so than our own press and its slavish repeating of administrative-driven anti-Iranian stories). The Commentary section is always thought-provoking, and one of the biggest Global Module supporters at the University of Jordan, Dr. Ahmed Majdoubeh, is a regular contributor. Not surprisingly there is no direct criticism of the Hashemite monarchy in the paper - you actually don't get too much of this from any Jordanian (although you can get some of the younger folks to vent if you catch them in an unguarded moment).