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...crisis for the U.S. in Iraq. Indeed, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that the U.S. would "pay the bill" for the disastrous consequences he warned would follow a Kurdish takeover of Kirkuk. The Economist sees the looming crisis over Kirkuk as another symptom of the trend of mainstream Kurdish political opinion toward a collision course with Bagdhdad...
...proclaim their desire for independence even as party leaders look to arrange the next best thing in the form of maximum autonomy from Baghdad. The flashpoint, of course, comes in cities where Kurds and Arabs (and in some cases Turkmen) compete for control, none more so than Kirkuk - the mainstream Kurdish parties are claiming as their own a city forcibly "Arabized" by Saddam Hussein, setting up a clash not only with resident Arabs and Turkomen but also with neighboring Turkey which is alarmed by any manifestation of Kurdish nationalism on its border. And right now, it's difficult...
...musical guests eschewed rock 'n roll; they included crooners, opera tenors and sopranos, lots of jazz men, both in the spotlight (Joe Williams must have sung Every Day I Have the Blues 40 times in those days) and on the bandstand, which was stocked with some of the best mainstream jazz musicians. Like Hugh Hefner, another essential taste-shaper of the period, Carson found that mixing esteemed authors and cool jazz with his staple entertainment (jokes for Johnny, Playmates for Hef) gave the enterprise a broader, higher reach...
...There are obviously some aspects of it that are very mainstream but there’s definitely a community of fans and writers that is separate,” Morgan said. For example, she said, each year the club celebrates the Coming and Going of the Hours—“known to the heathens as Daylight Savings”—by walking around the Yard in black while carrying candles and chanting...
...Morgan herself is a testament to science fiction’s path into the mainstream. More into fantasy than science fiction, she was reluctant to make broad generalizations about science fiction, saying she didn’t “feel quite enough in touch with the world of science fiction” to do so, though she said she is “decidedly a part...