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...keep head scarves out of the presidential mansion, but it might also put the brakes on European-inspired democratic and economic policies, jeopardize talks to join the E.U., and lead to a clampdown on Turkey's Kurdish minorities. The AKP, if elected, vows to press ahead with additional requirements of E.U. accession, whether or not the Europeans are willing to let Turkey join. The party also promises to nearly double personal annual incomes to $10,000, and raise national gdp from $400 billion to $800 billion by the end of its next five-year term. "Then," says...
...morning of his last day alive, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, head cleric of Islamabad's besieged Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), swore his readiness to die. "My martyrdom is certain," he told the local press. Within hours, Ghazi's bullet-riddled body was carted out of the basement of the sprawling mosque and madrasah, or seminary, complex where he and scores of heavily armed militants had battled Pakistani security forces for eight days. Ghazi is dead, but he may well come to haunt the President, General Pervez Musharraf, and the country...
...here's what I'd envision. They'd call my number and get my Automated Saporito Annulation Program (ASAP). "Please listen carefully," my voice would say mechanically, "not that you ever did, but my menu has changed so I can annoy you just the way you have annoyed me. Press 1 if you'd like to continue in a language that I can't speak; Press 2 if you'd like to be given a series of increasingly useless options. Press 3 if you'd like to discontinue having Saporito as a customer." Sprint would hit 3. "Your call...
Says Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird's longtime friend and press secretary: "She has made every woman feel that she too can do something for her community -and still be a conventional wife and mother. She got them up from the bridge tables." After her exit in January, Lady Bird may edit her White House diary into shape for publication as a book-a prospect that has publishers brandishing generous offers. When the Johnsons marked their 34th wedding anniversary last week, Lady Bird presented her husband with a copy of an entry from her diary dated...
...first lady, Lady Bird created a legacy through her passion for what the press called "beautification" and the legislation it produced. She had the billboards and junk yards banished from the federal highway rights-of-way; and she inspired the carpets of daffodils and tulips that delight tourists who come to the nation's capital. She was more than a gardener. She was one of the first true environmentalists of our times. Even LBJ liked the idea, complaining proudly one day that he had a hell of a time taking a nap because Lady Bird and Laurence Rockefeller...