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...week's end, of course, automatic rifles were speaking more forcefully than diplomats, and skeptics rushed to interpret the fierce battles in two West Bank refugee camps on Thursday as having eclipsed the ray of hope sent by Abdullah's proposal. Supporters, however, will see the latest escalation of violence in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967 as underscoring the prince's basic argument. Israelis and Palestinians may be fighting more fiercely than ever, but to the extent that they're talking about a long-term peace, the discussion has been dominated this week by Prince Abdullah's proposal...
...managed to break out from the dance-world ghetto to become bonafide pop-culture phenomena. "Chinese people have a problem when they think about the past," Huang explains of his merging of East and West, old and new. "They think like people from the past. I'm trying to interpret history through the filter of a modern person." Considering the passion of his mission, it's hard to imagine that this delicate-looking man with lithe limbs and narrow torso?he looks genetically engineered for arabesques?almost didn't become a dancer...
There's a growing belief that the Turkish judiciary itself is now on trial. If the political leadership, which has been flirting with reform, avoids setting strict criteria for positive change, many feel, judges will be left to interpret the laws as they see fit - and not necessarily in ways that will help Turkey on its path to E.U. membership. "Law is not local anymore," says Vahit Bicak, who lectures on human rights at the Ankara Police Academy. "We are part of an international legal system and must have respect for global values...
...norms without changing the spirit of how laws are applied. There is a prevailing sense in Turkey that laws exist to protect a "sacred" state from irrational individuals, rather than to protect individuals from possible arbitrary actions by the state. "It's up to the courts to interpret the laws in accordance with Turkey's commitment to join the European Union and to abide by the European Court of Human Rights," says Jonathan Sugden of Human Rights Watch. That view appears to be shared, unofficially, by E.U. diplomats. While seeing Tas' acquittal as a positive step, Sugden is not sure...
...independence. In Doughty’s opinion, the music industry mass-markets an image of danger that is problematic not so much because it is truly dangerous, but because it is in fact absolutely tame. When he calls “wanting to break stuff...a dumb way to interpret an emotional response to music,” he by no means intends this as a condemnation of bands like Nirvana, AC/DC or the Ramones. Instead, he argues convincingly that fans’ so-called “danger response” is an illusion, “another noun...