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...Beymen Brasserie nearby, Tolga Yildirim, a consultant, is sitting at an outdoor table drinking beer. "This is all we're going to be spending on for a while - food and drink," he says. "That's about it for the near future. Everybody's going to have to be careful." For Turks used to living in a boom, it's quite a change. But they've been through hard times before - much harder times, and not all that long ago. As Ümit Boyner says, "We have a saying here: "If you go into the hammam, you have to sweat...
...gained possession at midfield and sent a long through ball ahead to Dirks. The senior received the pass with no one but Crimson goaltender Kylie Stone to beat. When Stone came out of the net to challenge her, Dirks simply drifted right and buried a shot into the near corner of the goal...
Luck may have finally run out for Wonderland Greyhound Park, located near the final stop on the Blue Line, if a ballot question to ban dog racing in Massachusetts passes this November. The proposal, sponsored by The Committee to Protect Dogs and driven largely by concerns about animal mistreatment, represents a rehash of a ballot question from the 2000 elections that sought to ban dog racing in the state. That initiative failed by a 51 to 49 percent margin. A poll of likely voters conducted last week by Rasmussen Reports, a public opinion polling firm, indicated that 50 percent...
...change the state constitution to forbid gay marriage, 29 other states have had similar votes. In what must be one of the most successful electoral runs in history, marriage traditionalists have won a remarkable 29 times out of 30 - and often by margins that political strategists regard as near mythical: 78% in Louisiana; 76% in Oklahoma; and four years ago, fully 86% in Mississippi. Two years ago, however, the winning streak stopped in John McCain's home state of Arizona, perhaps because conservatives had reached for too much, attempting to forbid both gay marriage and civil unions...
Those kinds of victories are far more likely in the near term than any kind of wholesale reversal of fortune at the ballot boxes, says Kristina Wilfore, executive director of the Washington-based Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, an advocacy organization that specializes in using ballot initiatives to further liberal causes. Wilfore says her group picks its battles in fighting anti-gay-marriage amendments largely because most votes aren't even close. "We would never bring gay marriage up before the voters," she says. "This is [our opponents'] strategy." She admits they've been terribly good...