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...secularists once made fun of AKP officials for their brown, poorly tailored suits, Eksioglu adopts a cooler style with a fashionably unshaven jaw, shorts and a Led Zeppelin T shirt or, while campaigning, a sharp suit. To the consternation of local secularists, plenty of young, prosperous Turks, who also happen to be religious, are rallying to the AKP. One of the best known cafés in the area, in a former Pasha's palace overlooking the Bosporus, a place once reserved for wine-sipping secularists, now serves no alcohol; its female patrons, wealthy as ever, are as likely...
...part of culture, does this mean that there is no culture in the Arab countries? I often read TIME and feel as if we Arabs exist only in stories about violence, war and bombings. When it comes to art, food, sport, culture and all the other things that happen every day in the Arab world, we are nonexistent. Khalid Aabid, London...
...Could it happen again? No-at least not in the same way. The glaring economic imbalances of 10 years ago are no more. Asia has not only repaired much of the damage but taken out insurance-perhaps too much insurance-against a similar accident. During the 1990s Asian countries borrowed and spent beyond their means, a spree fueled by economic liberalization, overvalued local currencies and a flood of cheap foreign investment. But liberalization was badly executed, with political cronies running roughshod over regulators. Companies and consumers borrowed too much, much of it in foreign currencies. When Thailand's central bank...
...Asia has come a long way in the past 10 years. But accidents happen. Global market crashes come along every decade or so. Asia's best insurance policy is to build its institutions-keep improving corporate governance, keep working toward more transparent and resilient financial systems. Economic storms are a fact of life. But just as with real ones, the best protection is to build strong houses...
...colon cancer. So I went, and when I woke up I found out that a big part of my colon and I were soon to be parted. I was just floored. I had no symptoms, and no reason to believe anything was wrong with me. How could this happen again...