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...President may be content with keeping our troops mired in the middle of an open-ended civil war, but we are not, and neither are most Americans.' HARRY REID, U.S. Senate majority leader, reacting to President George W. Bush's May 1 veto of a $124 billion Iraq war spending bill that called for all U.S. troops to be out of the country by March 2008. Bush had pledged to veto the bill if it specified a deadline for withdrawal...
...That's certainly what the Indian government hopes will happen by combining Air India, which flies mainly internationally, and Indian, which concentrates on domestic routes. The state-run carriers have been losing market share to better-managed private airlines for years. India's Minister for Civil Aviation, Praful Patel, says the merger will improve operating efficiencies and cut costs by up to $150 million a year. Similar competitive advantages are being sought by Jet Airways. Jet became India's most successful airline after launching in 1993, but in recent years it has lost market share to low-cost upstarts like...
...Turkish democracy has always been a complicated and fragile phenomenon. On the one hand, the country's secular traditions date back to founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who mandated in 1923 a strict divide between mosque and state. (He banned the fez, and modeled his constitution on the Swiss Civil Code.) The secular middle class that grew out of that tradition, filling the ranks of the bureaucracy and profiting from its largesse, has dominated Turkey's political and economic landscape for most of the last century. The Turkish army has served as a guarantor of this successful arrangement. The self-appointed...
...partner and I look forward to taking full advantage of the new law.' THE REV. V. GENE ROBINSON, the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, about a New Hampshire law legalizing same-sex civil unions...
...which he hoped would appease Democrats (by finally getting the effort moving in Florida) and conservative Republicans (by limiting embryonic-stem-cell research to the existing lines approved by President George W. Bush in 2001), has instead irked both. On other matters, such as Crist's support of gay civil unions, conservatives like his 2006 primary opponent, former state chief financial officer Tom Gallagher, have blasted him for "taking every opportunity to disagree with the mainstream of the party...