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There exists just one viable refuge from the whole macabre orgy: the Farnsworth Room. Soft lighting and a standing ban on laptops make this genteel area a solemn sanctuary from the pandemonium outside. Rediscover your pen and move upstairs, and watch as all your despondency dissipates...
...also been careful not to push an Islamic agenda too aggressively. Erdogan, for example, ran for office in 2002 on promises to lift a 1981 secularist ban on head scarves in universities and other public buildings, but has so far refrained from doing so. Still, the party has also made its share of missteps. Last year Erdogan nominated a specialist in Islamic banking with no expert knowledge of interest rates to lead the country's central bank (the decision was vetoed). The party also introduced (and subsequently dropped) a law banning adultery. Turkey's newspapers are filled with stories...
Earlier this week, the Board of Directors of college athletics’ highest governing body approved a ban on text message recruiting, eliminating text messages to both parents of recruits and the kids themselves...
...It’s a no-brainer,” Harvard football coach Tim Murphy says of the ban. “I’ve got a 16-year old daughter who doesn’t get enough sleep, she studies all the time, she’s a three-sport athlete. If she’s getting calls at night and she’s getting 12 texts everyday that she has to respond to, you’ve got to be kidding...
...strength from the country's founding President, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who inscribed a pro-Western orientation into the political DNA of the state he built on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. Secularism - the strict division between religion and public life - is a lasting Ataturk legacy, as is a ban on wearing headscarves in public buildings...