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Since 2002, annual foreign direct investment in the mainly Muslim but officially secular country of more than 70 million people, which has traditionally served as a crossroads between East and West, has jumped more than 30-fold, to about $22 billion. Investment in banks, retail and commercial real estate has risen sharply. Turkish businesses have been investing aggressively in oil-rich Russia and the Middle East. All told, an economy that was shrinking as recently as 2001 expanded more than 5% a year through last year...
...Guard secular establishment is now backing a lawsuit aimed at banning the democratically elected AKP, casting a shadow over Turkey's prospects, at least in the short term. The suit seeks to bar the party and its members from political activity for allegedly violating Turkey's constitutional prohibition against mixing politics and religion. The move has rattled markets. After tripling from 2002 through last November, Turkey's stock index has dropped 32%. The global credit crunch has not helped. The ratings agency Standard & Poor's in April cut Turkey's credit rating to negative from stable, citing a fraught political...
Suddenly, bleary-eyed students emerge from dorms armed with fistfuls of posters. By 7:02, students in various stages of undress begin to segregate by event. The air is tense, the voices low. The Eleganzians clear their throats and glance at the Rock for a Reason-ians. The Secular Society stands aloof, dour with morning tiredness and atheism...
...featured Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative Roman Catholic writer and speaker, who went head-to-head with preacher-turned-atheist Dan Barker for roughly two hours of discussion on topics ranging from the relationship between science and religion to the ethics of Christianity. Students from the Harvard Secular Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship collaborated to write the questions...
...timed debate left little time to answer age-old questions of faith. Lewis M. Ward ’11 of the Harvard Secular Society acknowledged the shortcomings of the night’s format...