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...government. Erdogan may not be in office, but he will be in power. "He won't take a back seat," says political analyst Mehmet Ali Birand. Turkey's problem dates back to Kemal Atat?rk, the army officer who founded the republic almost 80 years ago and who imposed stringent laws to keep fundamentalism at bay. Erdogan, 48, is just the latest politician to run afoul of such laws which - in the hands of zealous courts and a secularist army - have led to the banning of dozens of politicians and a handful of political parties over the years. Born...
...case Harvard is fortunate not to have been the purveyor of foodborne illnesses, as Glickman said ensuring food safety is a difficult task, even for the most stringent institutions...
...dead and herself the target of his old war-time criminal cohorts who suspect her of hiding a stolen fortune. Complicating the situation is Reggie’s complete unawareness of her husband’s past illegal activities, as well as ample aid from two strangers: the stringent government official Mr. Bartholomew, deftly played by then unknown actor Walter Matthau, and the enigmatic Joshua (Grant), who claims to be a long lost friend of her husband?...
...have to confess that my standards for “excellent” are not quite as stringent for a horror film as for movies of other genres. Most horror flicks, that is, are so comically awful that anything with a semi-coherent plot and reasonably good acting already qualifies as decent, and the scale goes up or down from there. So, while The Ring surely is not The Godfather, or even American Beauty, for what it is, it’s quite good and worth seeing...
...still beavoided if unhindered inspections expose and destroy Saddam's arsenal. But they agree that Iraq gives way only when under dire threat. The issue has come down to how tough a new resolution on inspections the Security Council will write. There's an emerging consensus that stringent new rules are needed. The U.S.-British draft proposes tough terms calling for Iraq to comply in 30days, opening everything, including Saddam's highly suspect presidential compounds, giving the inspectors armed guards to facilitate searches--and, most important, authorizing force if Iraq makes a misstep...