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Turkey and the E.U. Your notebook item "how to talk to Turkey" [Sept. 26] reported on Turkey's decision to try its well-known author Orhan Pahmuk for "publicly denigrating" the nation. As you noted, this prosecution could count against Turkey's bid to enter the European Union. Advocating for Turkish E.U. membership in order to encourage a kind of moderate and democratic Islam can be a noble mission. Nevertheless, the E.U. should not ignore popular opinion. What if millions of European citizens simply do not want Turkey - a militaristic, deeply nationalistic, Asiatic (geographically as well as culturally) country that...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) unanimously passed its largest annual fiscal budget in history last night—totalling just less than $409,000—after a controversial line item allocating $15,000 to website redevelopment was removed from the bill. The budget increased even as the number of students opting out of the termbill fee rose from 15.9 percent to just under 25 percent, according to UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06, because the amount of the fee also increased from $60 to $75. The allocation of $15,000 for a new website, which was included...
...almost always devilishly clever. The walls of Wallace’s house are covered with portraits of their customers, whose eyes light up when their alarms are tripped by scavenging vermin (you can guess what happens when, one night, the Were-Rabbit tramples through every garden in town). Every item in Lady Tottington’s wardrobe intricately recreates a different piece of greenery. CGI, to the limited extent that it’s utilized, blends seamlessly with the handcrafted care of the figures, as in a particularly endearing scene where rabbits are sucked from their holes into a container...
...sickest “sixth sense” I’ve ever encountered. One time he looked at me with an expression of utter lunacy and whispered, “Dude, I think it’s open.” We proceeded to stockpile almost every item in the snack machine. When we returned with another plastic bag to finish the job, we found these three douches getting nabbed by the 5-0. This was the closest I’ve ever been to feeling “untouchable...
...docket committee prepares the agenda for each full Faculty meeting and its members are among the few with the power to shape the agenda of highly-scripted Faculty meetings, though any faculty member can offer an item for discussion. During Faculty meetings, the docket committee members also have procedural powers—last spring, the committee members recommended extensions to the two tense meetings preceding the no-confidence vote, and they counted the ballots cast in that vote on March...