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...image that went into my head, was me, my baby cousin, and my family lying dead in a pool of blood,” she said...
Fadillioglu, who grew up on the water, is first cousin to fashion designer Rifat Ozbek. Now the designer for Pollini in Milan, Ozbek is thrilled that his hometown is back on the style map. "I love that it is once again one of the world's great cosmopolitan cities," he says, "and with such a young energy and so many incredible places...
...latest project for his cousin is not another bar, however, but a mosque that is being privately funded. "Yes, people are surprised that a woman has been chosen, because some think that Islam is all about male power," says Fadillioglu, who aligns herself with the liberal side of the faith. "There is nothing about covering in the book," she explains, when quizzed about why many Muslim women here do not cover up and are passionate in their freedom not to do so, while other women, including the Prime Minister's wife, are equally insistent on wearing a head scarf...
...PRESIDENT IS ABOUT TO GET A LOT OF reality therapy. The Baker-Hamilton commission's work has been compared to a family intervention for a substance-addicted cousin, but unlike those encounters, this one won't remain behind closed doors. The entire 10-person commission will brief the President this Wednesday and then repeat the lesson for congressional leaders, both incoming and outgoing, later the same day. What happens next is designed to be even more convincing: several days of nonstop interviews on every media outlet, network and cable-TV station--a media blitz that will run well into...
...There will always be a more privileged, better-connected applicant. Nehamas says that his family’s connections to the school won’t be enough. His cousin, whose mother teaches at the medical school, applied early years ago. She was ultimately rejected. “Very smart, great grades, and she actually didn’t get in,” says Nehamas...