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...road to Brussels was never going to be easy for Turkey, given such problems as its human rights record, its use of the death penalty, the Kurdish conflict and the military's role in the political sphere. Still, last week's events were a wake-up call to the politicians that they have little alternative but to press forward-and that failure to do so will be mercilessly punished by the markets. An unstable Turkey is bad for everybody...
...reconfigured Russian ICBM and launched from a sub in the Barents Sea, the Cosmos 1 will fly to an altitude of 260 miles, where it will deploy the wings and float for a minute or so. If all goes well, the wings will then be jettisoned and the sphere aerobraked back to Earth, its bounce-down on Russian soil cushioned by air bags...
...troubles are expanding into the legal sphere: Saturday, five Holocaust survivors filed a class action suit against the company, demanding that IBM open its archives and pay for any "ill-gotten gains... from its conduct during World War II." Lawyers for the plaintiffs estimate those gains to be about $10 million in 1940 dollars, or roughly $120 million today...
This is, no doubt, a depressing conclusion. But it reinforces and reiterates the moral need to protect the politically weak from the politically strong--and the need for those who think that reason in fact lies on their side never to retreat from the political sphere...
...when something goes awry in that realm, we reflexively look to mothers and wives for an explanation - even if their careers take them as far from the household sphere as their husbands'. The message to women, although subtle, is clear: You want a career? Fine. Just don't forget where your primary responsibility lies...