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Aydin Dogan wants to make one thing perfectly clear. "All I want is transparency," says the Turkish media magnate. "I want for my country exactly the same conditions as there are in the West." His words, spoken after parliament approved a complex and harsh new media law, do not reflect disappointment. Rather, he is pleased to have got his way on the one bit of the law that matters most to him. Dogan, like other owners of major Turkish media outlets, now will be able to own, legally and publicly, what he already controls clandestinely. With the emergence of private...
...Nathaniel Vogel last year initiated the motion to change the school’s name after reading the writing on Louis Agassiz by Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould, who died Monday of cancer. Vogel testified that the elementary school’s diverse student body did not reflect the thinking of the 19th century scientist...
...contrast, Vogel said, the Baldwin name would reflect the school as it is today...
...screen. We don't want our superheroes to be invulnerable Supermen--Clark Kent's sad-sack persona is as essential to fans as Superman's ability to turn steel girders into pasta ribbons. It's not enough that superheroes fight our battles. We need them to suffer our heartbreaks, reflect our anxieties, embody our weaknesses...
Since 1989, the Kennedy Library Foundation has conferred the Profile in Courage Award on elected officials whose actions reflect the spirit of the book. "Many of these people who take courageous stands often are not reelected," says Kennedy. "Then over time, people recognize the courage that they had to stand up for what they believed." As president of the Foundation, Kennedy helps choose the recipients. This year they included the first international honoree, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whom Kennedy calls "an outstanding and courageous figure...