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...Eksioglu himself is an example of how the AKP is drawing from an ever wider pool of supporters. Traditionally, AKP supporters hailed from central Anatolia or the sprawling, working-class suburbs of big cities like Istanbul. But Eksioglu is conspicuously uptown. His family's property-development firm has flourished under AKP rule (it has put up four buildings since 2002, vs. none in the previous political term), thanks to a stable economy and lower interest rates that have made buying homes easier for ordinary residents of Istanbul. He now owns an apartment on Baghdad Avenue, the smartest address...
...more than 4% of adopted children in the U.S., according to a new study by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Washington's Urban Institute. Almost 2% of the nation's 3 million same-sex households include adopted children--and that growing pool, the UCLA study estimates, currently saves U.S. taxpayers as much as $130 million a year in costs for, say, keeping children in foster or institutional care and recruiting adoptive parents for them...
...There is a large category of potential deans out there who are not willing candidates,” said Altshuler, adding that it is still possible to find “a very large pool of candidates” and that the current search is making “reasonable progress...
...trading floor for lobbyists but also a center of think tanks and policy discussion. Years of bipartisan misgovernment have depressed the state of New York. Although New York City has rebounded from its early-'90s nadir, upstate is a shell of its former self. The local political talent pool has dried up. Albany is one of the most dysfunctional state capitals in the nation, having passed only three budgets on time in 23 years...
...selection committee for this year’s Jefferson Awards chose Hyde from a pool of about 30 other potential winners, National Director for the Jefferson Awards for Public Service Jonathan D. Peters said...