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...East Asia will present an overwhelming challenge to the U.S. Although the U.S. remains the world's largest (and still most productive) national economy, Fallows predicts that unless it adopts a more interventionist national economic policy and consumes less while saving more, it will go the way of the Ottoman Empire...
...support of the Yemeni people, a successful coalition between North and South seemed unlikely. The two countries, notes Peter Rodman, director of Middle East studies at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, "had different social and political evolutions." While both were dominated for three centuries by the Ottoman Turks, the Southern capital of Aden was seized by the British in 1839. After achieving independence from Britain in 1967, the South became the first Arab Marxist state. The North threw off the Turks after World War I and has been ruled by conservative tribes ever since...
...with Professor Isadore Twersky which resulted in a book publication; we curated the exhibit "Harvard's Arabian Nights" when Professor Muhsin Mahdi published a book about the One Thousand and One Nights; with Professor Shinasi Tekin we published The Imperial Self Portrait, a book of historic photographs of the Ottoman Empire. For years photographer Elizabeth Carella provided negatives and prints for NELC publications free of charge. Over the past decade we sponsored some 70 lectures (mostly archaeological lectures), many at the request of NELC. The students write as if we objected to the "educational needs of Harvard students and faculty...
...bombings that has injured five people in Austria since Dec. 3. Police arrested two right-wing extremists they believe are responsible for the attacks. All the bombs were accompanied by notes signed Count Rudiger von Starhemberg, a reference to the Viennese hero who directed the city's resistance to Ottoman armies...
...office. George Bush had it done in pale green, with much English chintz; ranks of miniature soldiers marched across the marble mantel. Clinton asked for a masculine, library-like room, and, says Hockersmith, loves the deep red simulated-leather wallpaper, massive, specially designed bookcases and his easy chair and ottoman from the Arkansas Governor's mansion. Nine major treaties -- most recently the Arafat-Rabin agreement of last September -- were signed on the circa-1867 table that serves as his desk...