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...call appears to be falling on deaf ears. Turkey is awash in fervent nationalism - newspapers are emblazoned with military heroics and jingoistic slogans. The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is loath to upset a cozy alliance with the far-right Nationalist Action Party, which helped it push through a recent law allowing headscarves in universities. Although thousands of Kurds in the southeast have taken to the streets in recent days to protest the invasion, there has otherwise been virtually no public opposition (with the exception of Ersoy's comment) to the invasion. A political solution to the Kurdish...
...interests of its own. Representatives to the UC are elected not to further promote or protect the institutional interests of the UC but rather to represent the interests of the student body. If the UC interests in fact coincided with those of its constituents, then it would not be loath to screen its reviewers. The UC, however, is far from ideal. Paralyzed by petty politicking and internal chumminess, this student government seems only to further the student body’s issues if doing so simultaneously furthers the UC. Allowing the UC to pick the five students (two of whom...
...There was and is, however, one very big idea lurking at the heart of the Democratic Party, even if its leaders have been loath to unleash it. If Republicans were about individual freedom, Democrats were about national unity. If Ronald Reagan said, "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem," Democrats can say, "Government is the ultimate expression of our public values - including our desire to create a free, fair market system." For decades since Reagan, it has been easy for feckless demagogues to rail against the nation's capital as if it were a deadly...
...fighting archrival India on more conventional battlegrounds, is little prepared to face a classic guerrilla insurgency. While some of Swat's militants are foreign, the majority are home-grown, nourished on local antipathy to a government that doesn't represent their wishes, and allowed to fester by political parties loath to alienate the religious vote by cracking down on demands for Sharia. "The people want the militancy to stop," says Adnan Aurangzeb, a former member of Parliament from Swat, and the grandson of the valley's last princely ruler. "The militants have stopped tourism and disrupted their lives...
...Many Dems are so loath to cede the high fiscal ground painstakingly won from the G.O.P. that they are willing to hit Wall Street with a new tax. But others have very parochial reasons to want to protect private equity. Senator John Kerry, for example, was opposed to a version of the bill that was floated this summer and only came out for this latest iteration with some fairly significant caveats. "We should do it in [a way that] avoids unintended consequence[s] and harm to other similarly structured partnerships in other fields," Kerry said. In Massachusetts the private equity...