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...Official fears extend to the possibility of embarrassing protests, and authorities are seeking ways to limit their exposure. Two weeks ago, police ordered the Midi Music Festival, a four-day outdoor rock concert that was to begin May 1, to reschedule to October. Zhang Fan, founder of the nine-year-old event, told the Associated Press, "I understand the [police are] mainly concerned about young people gathering together and doing radical things...
...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...
...likened drinking raw milk to "playing Russian roulette with your health"; advocates accuse the agency of relying on outdated information and harassing raw-milk producers in order to protect the pasteurizing industry. "The heat from the government against us is just palpable," says Mark McAfee, founder of Organic Pastures Dairy in Fresno, Calif., which produces and ships raw milk across the country...
Modern Turkey has looked Westward since its staunchly secular founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk decreed the separation of mosque and state shortly after World War I. The pro-Western political bent did not immediately translate into liberal economics. Corruption, cronyism and protectionism continued to cloud prospects until the 1980s. Even then, after a period of economic liberalization under reformist Prime Minister Turgut Ozal (a pal of Margaret Thatcher's), the old habits died hard. In 2001, Turkey suffered a full-blown financial crisis in which the Turkish currency lost nearly 50% of its value overnight...
Nina Zipser, the founder and director of the University’s institutional research division, will be moving to the Yard in May to oversee the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Office of Faculty Affairs, according to a statement issued by the Faculty yesterday. The wife of economics professor David I. Laibson ’87, Zipser will be working primarily to coordinate faculty appointments, searches, and promotions. She described her role yesterday evening as one of support and planning. “It’ll be a mixture of providing whatever data that the Faculty...