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...widely interpreted in Western media as evidence of Turkey's un-European behavior. But un-European is something Kerinçsiz is proud to be. "History taught us that we cannot trust these Europeans," the lawyer, 42, told Time. "Look at what happened in 1920: they divided up the Ottoman Empire, even though they had pledged not to do that. People call us paranoid, but we're not." The mistrust is mutual. Since the E.U. officially invited Turkey to start talks last December, European misgivings have deepened. Last week, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel tried to insist...
Friday, Oct. 14. The Continuation of Ottoman Music. Mehmet Ali Sanlzkol brings new techniques and media to traditional Ottoman music. 7:30 p.m. Paine Hall. $15; students and seniors $10. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office or online...
...best historical epics are interior, burrowing into outsize personalities to reveal the madness that made them great, the greatness that made them mad. T.E. Lawrence, who helped the Arabs overthrow the Ottoman Empire only to see their dream betrayed by politicians in Europe, is a figure whose elusive charisma is perfectly captured in screenwriter Robert Bolt's epigrammatic dialogue, in Peter O'Toole's brilliantly bold portrayal and in Lean's images of a vast desert that one small Englishman filled with his idealism and ambition...
...would come the famous Greenberg tongue lashing. His former daughter-in-law Nikki Finke, who knew the family throughout the 1970s and was married to eldest son Jeffrey in the early 1980s, recalls family ski vacations in Stowe, Vt., where Greenberg would settle into his big easy chair and ottoman next to the phone and spend hours dialing subordinates. "He'd be screaming into the phone, cursing at people and calling them idiots," she says. "I never heard anything like...
...their bathroom." So instead of the standard toilet and sink, newly styled bathrooms are elaborate extensions of the bedroom, furnished with pieces like Williams-Sonoma Home's Victoria Collection dresser, left, which can be used as a sink. Or Kohler's Purist Hatbox toilet, which looks like an ottoman. "The bathroom has become an area in the home that can reflect personal style," says Michael McGeever, vice president of Holdeverything, where a bamboo screen for bathrooms is a best seller...