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Aydin Dogan wants to make one thing perfectly clear. "All I want is transparency," says the Turkish media magnate. "I want for my country exactly the same conditions as there are in the West." His words, spoken after parliament approved a complex and harsh new media law, do not reflect disappointment. Rather, he is pleased to have got his way on the one bit of the law that matters most to him. Dogan, like other owners of major Turkish media outlets, now will be able to own, legally and publicly, what he already controls clandestinely. With the emergence of private...
Opponents got a boost last month when a draft report leaked from the EPA's Denver office called the project, which doesn't need congressional approval, "environmentally unacceptable." Aware that such a harsh verdict could delay the project indefinitely, Deputy Secretary of the Interior J. Steven Griles, a former energy lobbyist, asked the EPA to reconsider. The agency's final evaluation is expected this week. But there is another roadblock: the Interior Department's own board of appeals has ruled that three leases in the basin were granted illegally because the environmental impact of drilling for methane had not been...
...Press; 224 pages) shows that the isolated vale in the Himalayas was a heaven before it became a hell. In the simpler pre-partition world of Koul's majestic grandmother and anxious mother, Hindus and Muslims were united by their fiercely unique Kashmiri identity. The greatest threat was a harsh winter and even that, in Koul's lush prose, was to be cherished as a gift...
...epidemics of aids and other diseases. Kyi Maung is cautiously optimistic that "reason will prevail," not least because Suu Kyi has mellowed and is willing to compromise. Where she isn't likely to give ground, however, is over the release of several hundred NLD members from Burma's notoriously harsh prison system. "These jails are our killing fields," says Kyi Maung. (The junta did release five political prisoners last Friday...
...should also be noted that Cuba, China and the Sudan all have seats on the U.N.’s main human rights body. When one considers the realities of Cuban political dissidents rotting in decrepit, inhuman prison cells, Chinese religious minorities suffering harsh persecution by Beijing and Sudanese women and children being sold into chattel slavery, it becomes difficult to accord the commission any real credibility...