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...Islamic world was more fanciful than its images in 19th century art, there could be no doubt that the popular pictures of the day exuded a fictive sensuality: the odalisque, her breasts exposed, her belly barely covered by harem trousers, lounging on a divan as she awaited a pasha's pleasure; swarthy eunuchs, armed with saber and musket, standing guard at the seraglio gates; the almah, or Egyptian dancing girl, clapping her castanets as she strips off her veils; the nubile concubine displaying her roseate flesh in a Turkish bath...
...collapse of the Ottoman Empire prior to and during World War I. The Armenians, supported by the Russians, resisted the Constantinople government and went so far as to displace other ethnic groups from the traditional Armenian homelands, murdering indiscriminately. Nobody can deny that the results of Talaat Pasha's orders were tragic. However, the events that occurred more than 60 years ago, under the aegis of the Ottomans, should not be avenged today. Turkey has long since put behind her the evils of her empire. Terrorist acts will not undo what was done, nor will they result...
During World War I, the Turks exterminated or deported virtually their entire Armenian population because they held the unfounded suspicion that members of the ethnic group were disloyal. The decision to undertake the genocide was communicated to the local leaders by the Interior Minister, Talaat Pasha, in 1915. One of his edicts stated that the government had decided to "destroy completely all Armenians living in Turkey. An end must be put to their existence, however criminal the measures taken may be, and no regard must be paid to age, or sex, or to scruples of conscience...
...half years with a shrink put his cerebrum where it belonged, and even when Jeannie folded, he kept busy with TV pilots and movies. In the lean years that followed he still earned more than $150,000, enough, as his mother says, to allow him to be "a grand pasha" around the house...
...ease with which "The Phoenix" achieved its rebirth was both satisfying and shocking. Three seat Pasha Lakhdir typified the satisfaction: "You only get three shots at the Sprints during your career--not counting freshman year--and if you win it just once it's great... I love...