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More than anything, Schrager is a stylist, and he understands that the façade of any development, whether a hotel or a residence, has to jibe with pop culture to be commercially successful. Several years ago, he started to look around for a new idea, traveling everywhere from Istanbul to Texas. "Seeing other exotic kinds of aesthetics was expansive for me," he says. "I wanted to do something that was really a reversal. The prospect of working with an artist was new to me." And when he saw Schnabel's movie Before Night Falls, he knew Schnabel could project...
...temptation to dub the bombing an “act of war†or an attack sponsored by Pakistan; initial statements from both nations stressed the need to continue dialogue and confidence-building measures between the tense neighbors. Terror attacks in New York, Madrid, London, Bali, Casablanca, Istanbul, and Bombay show that the “war on terror†is a global effort that affects all civilized nations, but this fight has to be conducted without spawning more hatred and terror. In this respect the initial Indian response has been extremely commendable—the government...
...anonymous tip-off to a government official in Usak, the town in western Turkey where the artifacts originated and were housed in a small museum. By the time officials had called in experts to authenticate the artifacts, the objects were long gone, disappearing via middlemen in Istanbul into a global smuggling network, culture ministry officials said. Interpol is on their trail...
...give up the fight to return such important cultural artifacts to their rightful birth places. "Of course museums like those in Turkey need to be improved and more people need to have access to these works," says Gul Pulhan, a Yale-educated Near Eastern archeologist and assistant professor at Istanbul's Koc University. "But the solution is not to insist on this idea that richer nations are more entitled to these artifacts...
...countries that dispatched troops to Iraq (and which still remain there), Japan has become a target for terrorists. Thus a law which screens entering aliens and puts their personal information in a database may be crucial to safeguarding Tokyo from the fate of Istanbul, Riyadh, or Bali. There is some merit to this argument, though Japan’s exclusively logistic and non-combat role in the War on Terror makes it far less (if at all) a terrorist’s target than the U.S. The fingerprinting law, however, also raises many serious concerns, though slightly different from those...