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...Islamic elements into its legal system," he told the newspaper Vatan. Parliament is expected to approve the package but President Ahmet Necdet Sezer - a staunch secularist - may well use his veto. Still, Erdogan's conservative allies "have proved that when they wanted to they could put their foot down," Mehmet Ali Birand, a political commentator, told TIME. Party politics - nothing un-European about that...
...John Lyons stepped up next and bemoaned the departure of his top pass catchers—wide receiver Jay Barnard and tight end Casey Cramer—which, in basketball terms, ranks somewhere between the loss of Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen from the 1998 Bulls and that of Mehmet Okur and Corliss Williamson from the 2004 Pistons...
...without war - no Vietnam, cnn or Fahrenheit 9/11 - a life where the only news comes filtered through the occasional visitor or the Vatican weekly newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. "When was the year the Pope was shot?" asks Sister Veronica, who was two years into monastic life when Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca made his 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. "Mass was just going to start, and Mother came in and said, 'The Pope's been shot.' We didn't know any details, but you can imagine how we prayed for him and the shock...
...heard a lot of good ideas about teaching kids about nutrition. But perhaps the most striking and unforgettable lesson we can offer kids is something like the presentation we had from Dr. Mehmet Oz, showing us what organs like the liver look like after years of bad nutrition and obesity. How about a national effort to bring this kind of hands-on lesson into elementary school classrooms? Our student reporters from TIME For Kids confirm that this lesson has the kind of gross-out cool that makes an impression...
...ahead in Switzerland this week despite Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash's announcement that he will not participate. Denktash, who is opposed to the U.N. plan on which the discussions are based, said he did not believe that agreement could be reached on basic issues. Pro-unification Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat will attend the summit in Denktash's place. Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis and Turkey 's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will join the talks at a later stage. Tests Negative RWANDA The U.N. said initial tests on a flight recorder it had locked away in a filing...