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...disdain of Turkey's Sunni authorities may explain why many Alevi venerate the country's secularist founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. In his separation of mosque and state, they finally found freedom from discrimination. But that eroded under subsequent governments, often violently. As recently as 1993, a group of 33 prominent Alevi poets, writers and musicians were burned to death by a fundamentalist Sunni mob in a hotel in eastern Turkey...
...Because research is getting so specialized, we know less and less about more and more because science is getting too detailed to explain,” Shapin said. “Yet at the same time, science and technology is becoming more important in people’s life and they want to know what’s going...
...shortly after graduating from MIT, DeBergalis found his interest in his work waning. “So much of it is so divorced from anything in particular,” he says of his time writing code and running scripts. “I could never explain to my mom what I did or why she couldn’t buy what I wrote...
Though Miller couldn’t fully explain what that meant for his own sound, he did start singing “I Will Survive” in the Pforzheimer dining hall, suggesting that he, like his style, has a certain presence...
...April 13-14 elections, Rutelli and Alemanno upped their attacks against each other in the closing days, with much of rhetoric circulating around the issue of public safety after a high-profile rape case in Rome. Rutelli said Alemanno's populistic exploitation of law-and-order issues helped explain his victory...