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...spending bankers, mainstays of the luxury-hotel business. So far, Shangri-La is avoiding widespread discounting of room rates to protect its image. "If you look at all the top brands in the world at the high end - the Louis Vuittons, the Rolls-Royces - they never discount," says Greg Dogan, Shangri-La's chief operating officer. Instead, Shangri-La is targeting new customers, including corporations that might benefit from government stimulus packages, like construction companies, or are recession-resistant, like pharmaceutical outfits. "We have to knock on a few more doors," Rao says...
...overseas assets have been frozen pending the ruling, which if it goes against them and is upheld on appeal could cost the family $9 billion. "The era of the Uzans' untouchability is over," says Ismet Berkan, chief political columnist of Radikal, a leading left-wing newspaper owned by the Dogan group. "Their empire is unraveling." The clash marks a watershed in Turkey. If the crackdown is successful, the government will claim a major victory in the fight against Turkey's old way of doing business. That could also help accession talks with the European Union, which has been calling...
...Aydin Dogan wants to make one thing perfectly clear. "All I want is transparency," says the Turkish media magnate. "I want for my country exactly the same conditions as there are in the West." His words, spoken after parliament approved a complex and harsh new media law, do not reflect disappointment. Rather, he is pleased to have got his way on the one bit of the law that matters most to him. Dogan, like other owners of major Turkish media outlets, now will be able to own, legally and publicly, what he already controls clandestinely. With the emergence of private...
...like it. It mellows us out," says Betty-Jo Matzinger, a graduate student at the Education School. Her friend, Naomi Dogan, also a graduate student at the Ed School, agrees. "It helps me with my breathing and working out the physical kinks I get from mental crunching," she says. "It is a great one-hour escape from the chaos of life...
...declare jihad? In Islam's dominant Sunni branch, that power formerly belonged to the caliph, or political successor of Muhammad, who united religious and temporal rulership. But no caliphate has existed since 1924, and Sunni jurists today believe the power rests with any legitimate Muslim political authority. Lufti Dogan, a former Turkish Religious Affairs Minister, says all Muslims can be called to jihad, but there is greater receptivity to the call in Shi'ism, the minority branch of Islam that is dominant in Iran...