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...Union officials and Turkish negotiators have created more tension than accord [May 23]. While it is understandable that Turkey would want to join the E.U. for the economic benefits, it seems obvious that the country may have to sacrifice a big chunk of its unique national identity. In this classic East-meets-West scenario, a power struggle has ensued, with the E.U. imposing Western values on one side and Turkey desperately trying to retain its national culture on the other. One has to question the conventional wisdom that joining the E.U. will inevitably enhance a country's standing. The different...
Having learned its lesson with salad bars, Wendy's is trying to give consumers "choices along the whole continuum of health," Schuessler says. But he isn't willing to go all out in pursuit of the bad-boy burger. (Although the Classic Triple features three-quarters of a pound of beef.) "Every company has to ask themselves, Are you going to be relevant to the consumer tomorrow...
...father would nag Nabokov about his lack of progress on his first professional translation. “A long-suffering, occasionally snow-sprinkled copy of the Russian book sometimes lay for days on the seat of my permanently topless MG-TC,” Nabokov writes, referring to his classic roadster. “Father, when he happened upon the car parked on a nearby street, would meticulously record the page to which the book was opened, and confront me in the evening with my lamentable lack of progress...
...many who pressed into St. Peter's Square didn't even believe in God. "That means it needs more than a religious explanation," he says. "It was more like a mythological gathering. It's a sign that people today have a need for a King. John Paul was a classic figure of royalty, of a paternal transcendence." Perhaps Eco's own continuing appeal may signal another popular longing: for friendly mentors, to enrich and unravel the world for its bewildered inhabitants...
Stretch carefully. Limbering up is important for everyone, but overweight exercisers should stay away from stretches that strain the lower back, including that classic from gym class, the toe-touching drill...