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...vres, which led to the Ottoman Empire being dismantled by foreign powers. "Turks are fed up," says Haluk Cetin, a 30-year-old nationalist activist and manufacturer of ice-cream-making equipment. "Rising terrorism, economic hardship and now all this pressure from the E.U. Turks are patient people, but once they reach boiling point, anything could happen." Erdogan understands that his government is at risk from nationalists, but he also has his own political constituents to cater to, many of them in the prosperous conservative Muslim heartland of Anatolia. They too are restive for change, having failed to see Erdogan...
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM THE LONDON TERRORIST BOMBINGS ABOUT INTELLIGENCE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT? What this tells us is that we have an enemy that's very patient, very diabolical. I think they watch to see what we do and they adjust their conduct accordingly. This is why we're concerned about talking too freely about some of the things we're doing in the war on terror...
...drug research is conducted by pharmaceutical companies, but few experts trust them to do head-to-head matchups. It's just too easy for a company to tilt the odds in its own favor by choosing the weakest rival drug or by playing around with dosages or the patient-selection process...
...what should the patient bargain hunter be buying in Asia today? Wadhwaney suggests looking at out-of-favor Japanese stocks like Asatsu-DK Inc., an advertising agency that's "extremely cash rich," well positioned in an industry that's ripe for consolidation and "very cheap." He also likes Nichicon Corp., a producer of aluminum capacitors--ubiquitous components in electronic products. It's an acutely cyclical industry that's deeply depressed, but Nichicon--like every other company whose stock Wadhwaney owns--is so well capitalized that Wadhwaney believes it will undoubtedly survive the downturn...
...Suitable Quartet - you know, The Unsuitable Boy, The Unsuitable Girl, The Suitable Couple." A joke, right? "I don't know," deadpans the author of very long books, "but it'll be something short. As a reader, I'm very impatient." As a great-nephew, however, he is very patient. An early draft of Two Lives was tinged with bitterness: Shanti, at the end of his life, committed an act of family betrayal that Seth cannot fully understand, but in the final version forgives. After all, the man was family, and thus familiarly human. "Behind every door," writes Seth toward...