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...liberty and opportunity that bind it to Britain. But asked about a recent private meeting with President Bush, his responses are determinedly evasive. When finally he cooks up an opinion, it's served lukewarm. "I believe the shared interest that is founded on shared values is a very potent foundation for all relationships in the future," he says...
...wondering what all the critical rapture and Oscar nominations were about, make your move now. Guillermo del Toro's fable is definitely not for kids, but it is a fable--about a child (Irana Baquero, above) who escapes from real nightmares into an eerie, fulfilling wonderland--that is as potent and scary as the great early Disney cartoon features. Except there is no happy ending...
...largest demonstrations the ancient capital has ever seen. The cause of their ire: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had named Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a politician with an Islamist past, to be the next President. More precisely, their outrage focused on a singularly potent piece of symbolism: Gul's wife wears a head scarf. "If it was up to the government we'd all be in head scarves!" shouted Ezgi Kilic, 21, a member of Bosphorus University's college basketball team, who turned out to demonstrate wearing navy and white tracksuit pants and Ray-Bans. Her teammate...
...Crimson (18-18) took its third straight from the Huskies (21-14), the 2007 Beanpot champs, thanks especially to contributions from three of its six seniors. Senior Jason Brown, getting a rare start, held the potent Northeastern offense to three runs in 5 1/3 innings, and classmates Brendan Byrne and Andrew Casey contributed two hits apiece in what was likely their final collegiate outing—as of press time, Harvard was still trying to schedule an additional non-conference matchup for some time this week...
...Such fears may be exaggerated, however, since Turkey's institutions have potent safeguards against the introduction of political Islam. And the powerful Turkish military, self-appointed guardians of the secularist state, stands ready to intervene should those safeguards be breached. (It did so a decade ago by removing Gul's former party from government.) The AKP has so far been reluctant to introduce any changes that might provoke the wrath of the generals. At a rare press conference prior to this week's nomination of Gul, the hawkish army chief Yasar Buyukanit warned that a Turkish President must have secular...