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...support for the measure may be a step in the new, pro-Islamic government's long-term campaign to win E.U. membership. Alternatively, it could simply be an effort to buy time and ease political pressure that had been building on the island since massive anti- government protests broke out last year. Mehmet Ali Talat, head of the opposition Republican Turkish Party, which helped organize the protests, takes the latter view. "The government had run out of ideas," he says. "They had to do something." Serdar's tone may be more moderate than his father's, says Talat...
...said, he was not. In the event, Suha stayed home and Abbas attended the Rose Garden ceremony with President Bill Clinton, but on the plane to Washington, according to two top officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.), Arafat fumed all the way. The incident, says an Arafat aide, broke the three-decade bond between the Palestinian leader and his No. 2 at the P.L.O.; they haven't trusted one another since, says the aide...
...Dare she brings similar realism and sympathy to the tale of a coed group of six twentysomething Hong Kong roommates. They are caricatures who nonetheless ring true: the wild girl (Candy Lo), the dreamy girl (the dreamy Karena Lam), the dork (Roy Chow) who loves the dreamy girl. Too broke to go out, they stay in and play Truth or Dare (though without the tequila I remember being a key part of the game). One night they take a collective dare to achieve a dream in a year's time. Wong follows them as they try and, for the most...
...Martha has modeled herself more on the early, emotion-free Hillary - most memorably in that disastrous CBS Morning News appearance shortly after the insider-trading allegations broke. She snapped that the accusations against her were "ridiculous," and then brandishing her knife at the head of cabbage she was turning into coleslaw, she concluded "I'm just going to focus on my salad." In a flash, we saw the Martha behind the fluffy 300-thread count towels, the one alleged to have fired her gardener over pennies and to turn to ice the minute the klieg lights...
...Harvard women’s swimming and diving team finally broke through a ceiling that had seemingly been constructed to pin it below second place in the Ivy League...