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...restrictions on air travel - so that flights from countries other than just Turkey could land at their airport - would be a boon to local tourism. Turkish Cypriots would like their courts and universities to be recognized by other countries too. In his "presidential" mansion, a cluster of old colonial-era sandstone buildings, the Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat complains: "We are facing very unfair treatment. Lifting the international isolation on Turkish Cypriots should not be a question of bargaining." But bitter memories and generations of distrust have made compromise difficult. The Turkish military, diplomats believe, has more than...
...That notion must have drifted over to Bristol. After two features and dozen of shorts whose wit and grace proved that stop-motion deserved to survive in the digital era, some of the Aardmanites agreed to go to California and make a computer-generated feature with the company's American partner, DreamWorks. (Not Park; he stayed home...
Steven Pinker writes that religion “is an American anachronism, I think, in an era in which the rest of the West is moving beyond it” (“Less Faith, More Reason,” Oct. 27, op-ed). As a consequence, he believes, we should reconsider the “Reason and Faith” requirement in the Report of the Committee on General Education. At best, this statement can be interpreted as hyperbole; looking at census data worldwide, in which religious affiliation is generally self-reported, 16 percent of those surveyed identified themselves...
...Harris’ musical experiments aren’t always unqualified successes, he can be forgiven for his overextension; the pressure to innovate surely weighs heavily on his shoulders. No era of jazz ever includes more than a few great vibraphonists, and now, with musicians like Steve Nelson doing their best playing as sidemen, and with greats like Bobby Hutcherson decades past their most important work, Harris has taken up the mantle of jazz’s highest-profile practitioner of the instrument and all of the expectation that comes with...
...wrote a column entitled “Yankee Doodle Springsteen,” praising the positive attitude of a song where “problems always [seem] punctuated by a grand, cheerful affirmation: ‘Born in the U.S.A.!’” Apparently the Reagan-era deficits extended to the realm of irony...