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...copy of the double issue "In the Steps of Marco Polo" [Aug. 7?14]. I read with complete fascination article after article from your gifted journalists retracing Marco Polo's steps. The fact that I was reading this issue while going on my own personal quest through Istanbul?a part of Marco Polo's voyage?and Turkey's interior made the reading an even more pleasurable experience. Congratulations to the entire team behind this project; you have outdone yourselves. Shruti Bajpai Gurgaon, India...
...Qaeda and its acolytes have certainly managed, over the past five years, to kill hundreds in terror strikes on Bali and Madrid, Istanbul, London and perhaps even New Delhi. But none of those attacks has come close to matching 9/11 in scale of devastation - or, just as importantly, in organizational sophistication. And despite regular taped warnings delivered on Al-Jazeera, al-Qaeda has managed no further attack on the U.S. mainland...
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...
...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...