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...members and especially the Japanese public for causing a political vacuum." Aso's closeness to Abe, most analysts say, is what cost him his third bid for prime minister. The party instead looked to Fukuda, the long-serving speaker of Junichiro Koizumi's colorful cabinet and a skilled consensus builder, to rebuild and regain voters' confidence...
...Jamie Foxx did tirelessly in 2004 for Ray and as Penélope Cruz did last year for Volver, gets favorable media coverage simply by being available and photogenic. Even a screw-up, like the broken projector at last year's midnight Borat screening, can be a buzz-builder if the celeb plays it right. Sacha Baron Cohen, who had arrived at the screening in character on a woman-peasant-drawn carriage, recovered nicely when the film stopped just 10 minutes in; Cohen apologized and explained that the film reel was pieced together with the best Kazakhstani horse glue...
...with a resounding 47% of the vote. Erdogan then pushed ahead with Gul's nomination, despite calls to name a more centrist candidate to stand for a position which is not particularly powerful but carries tremendous symbolic weight because it was once held by the country's Westernizing nation builder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk...
...Turkey, it's far from clear what that new era is going to hold. "Is this the beginning of a new period of compromise, or the start of secularist-Islamist strife?" wrote columnist Mehmet Ali Birand. A former foreign minister, Gul is widely known as a coalition builder who played a key role in Turkey's European Union membership bid, but his background in political Islam makes him unpalatable to secularists...
...unlikely that Carl will allow his flagship to deteriorate in quality, since he spent years sweating the development details. A fourth-generation builder, the inspiration for Viking occurred when Carl was constructing his own home in Greenwood in the early 1980s. His wife Margaret wanted a gas range like the Chambers brand she had grown up with: a hulking cast-iron and porcelain beast weighing more than 500 lbs. (225 kg). Chambers was long gone, supplanted by flimsier ranges that offered utility sans style. So Carl decided to build his own, inspired by another contractor whose high-quality cooking utensils...