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...Erdogan confronts one major obstacle, though. Despite his release from jail, he faces a five-year ban from holding political office. Turkey's Minister of Justice has already suggested that any new party founded by Erdogan cannot be legally established. The mayor will contest and even defy the ban, hoping that parliament will keep its pledge to make the amendments to the constitution that would get him off the hook. But he may well have to lead from the wings, not the best spot from which to shift the Islamic movement into the political center...
Nane Annan watched last Friday with mixed emotions as the United Nations General Assembly unanimously elected her husband, Kofi Annan, to a second five-year term as Secretary-General. The Swedish-born lawyer turned artist has made no secret of her concern that the U.N.'s demanding top job has taken a toll on her husband but, she says, "in spite of the heavy responsibilities, he seems to be thriving, and I did support him in making himself available for a second term." Annan is painfully aware of the steep price that a life devoted to public service can command...
...trimmed-down, reconfigured Rover is about to announce some surprising financial details: losses were cut to $424 million in the last fiscal year, and management expects to halve them this year en route to breaking even in 2002. Finally, some grudging respect is coming Phoenix's way. "I'll give them their due," says Graeme Maxton, of the automotive industry consultants Autopolis. "I didn't think they'd last this long." Rover executives insist their five-year turnaround plan is working, and cite sales figures as evidence: the company moved 205,000 cars last year, exceeding its goal...
...skeptic, all evidence is anecdotal. But some anecdotes are more than encouraging; they are inspiring. Consider Sue Cohen, 54, an accountant, breast-cancer survivor and five-year yoga student at the Unity Woods studio in Bethesda, Maryland. "After my cancer surgery," Cohen says, "I thought I might never lift my arm again. Then here I am one day, standing on my head, leaning most of my 125-lb. (57-kg) body weight on that arm I thought I'd never be able to use again. Chemotherapy, surgery and some medications can rob you of mental acuity, but yoga helps compensate...
...Silicon Valley--didn't spring up until the '80s, when tech was more than 10% of the S&P 500 market cap and on its way to 30% by 1999. (Today it is 19%.) Four of the five oldest post-1980 tech funds (see chart) have generated market-beating returns since inception. They have also consistently outperformed on a rolling five-year basis since the late '80s. For example, the oldest of the modern funds, Fidelity Select Technology, has whipped the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 in every five-year period since the one beginning in 1989. It underperformed...