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...further evidence was needed that the long-dreaded global economic slump is now upon us, the Eurozone - the 15-nation economic bloc that uses the common European currency - was formally declared to be in recession, for the first time since the euro was adopted nearly a decade ago. Oddly enough, Asian and European equity markets responded to the dismal news by posting gains of between 0.5% to 4% throughout...
...will send a man to the moon" is a far more romantic proposition than "We will have a gadget in your basement that will help you use electricity more efficiently." But if there is creativity lurking amid the destruction of the economic crisis, it exists at the intersection of national security, economic stimulus and climate change - the gust of innovation and economic growth that will come from breaking our dependence on fossil fuels. Along with finding the right people to staff his Administration, Barack Obama's most important job now is to find the right words to inspire the nation...
...that grip on Turks' imagination well beyond their school days. His portrait graces every office, classroom, boat, bus and building in the country. The sleepiest of Anatolian towns features an Atatürk statue in its square. On Tuesday morning at 9:05 a.m., as sirens wailed, the entire nation came to a halt to mark the minute of his death...
...fast-changing Turkey, Atatürk's personality cult is slowly cracking, and the ructions are reverberating through the nation's political life. A new film about the legendary officer, who fought off occupying European powers to create modern Turkey from the remnants of a moribund Ottoman Empire, has stirred controversy by depicting Mustafa Kemal the man, not the icon. He is shown as a lonely figure, a heavy drinker and a failed husband, racked by doubts at the end of his life. The documentary uses original footage as well as re-enactments and is tellingly called Mustafa instead...
...attending not just as President of France but also as the current holder of the E.U.'s rotating presidency, a "vague mandate" for Washington that reflected "the divergent opinions on the way things should be handled." Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, presumably piqued at the idea of his nation's tradition of bank secrecy being threatened by international finance regulation, pointedly noted that "those demanding far-reaching coordination of economic policies apply such rules themselves" - a jab at Sarkozy's own French budgets violating E.U. rules that limit deficits to 3% of GNP. (See pictures of France celebrating Bastille...