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...Turkey's oddities that the Steag plant, the Isdemir steel factory and the Renault plant are either joint ventures with or wholly owned by an organization called OYAK, which is the military's professionally managed pension fund. Unusually for a pension fund, OYAK directly owns and operates major sectors of the Turkish economy, and it has boomed along with Turkey these past six years. Indeed, OYAK is now the third largest business in the nation, behind the conglomerates owned by the Sabanci and Koc families. Its rapidly growing profits this decade have ensured that military officers now get substantial lump...
...rare show of agreement, both Obama and McCain expressed steadfast support for ROTC at a joint appearance at Columbia last month...
...truck bombing that killed more than 50 people at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel. U.S. Army General David McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, believes the militants are now so strong that they pose an "existential threat to the future of Pakistan." Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters at the Pentagon on September 26 that the terrorist safe haven in Pakistan "has gotten safer this year. The insurgency has gotten more sophisticated...
...students wrote an e-mail to opt out, but this year the SAO required students to write a letter to remove the term bill charge. At the beginning of this semester, HoCos received an additional boost to their budget from the newly-created Student Life Fund—a joint venture between the UC and the College Dean’s Office. Under the fund, HoCos are eligible for two grants of up to $1,250 each—enough money to fund approximately one formal per semester. The fund also sponsors domestic travel for student organizations. Last spring when...
Koh’s visit to North Korea marked the first performance of a piece by Isang Yun, a Korean-German composer, by a joint group of North and South Korean musicians, and the first performance of Yun’s signature work—his cello concerto—in North Korea...