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...politics than its people: saying no to the invasion of Iraq, pushing for E.U. accession, and being targeted by terrorists. Deadly bombings last November dented the facade of Istanbul, the city where East meets West, and led to tight security in advance of this month's NATO summit. But to modern dance legend Pina Bausch, this ancient city beside the Bosphorus remains a place of mystery and movement, gypsies, drinkers and steamy Turkish baths. In Nefes (Breath), a show that runs until the end of June at Paris' Théâtre de la Ville, before moving on to Berlin...
...guards weren't armed, and there have been conflicting statements about how the soldiers knew where the men were being held. Italian newspapers speculated that the government may have paid a ransom. Calling such claims "fantasy and falsehoods," a buoyant Berlusconi appeared on news programs from the G-8 summit in Georgia to proclaim that he personally "took the responsibility" to green-light the rescue mission. Amid all the sincere relief and jubilation, some also saw political calculation in the Prime Minister's delight: his struggling government needed all the help it could get before last weekend's European Parliament...
Forced Laughter G8 SUMMIT At a press conference wrapping up the G-8 summit in Sea Island, Georgia last week, George W. Bush was asked how his policy battles with some of his guests affected his personal relations with them. "Well, we go to different corners of the room and we face the wall," he said, laughing. It has been some time since he felt so free to make bad jokes. Bush has been working hard to mend fences and keep the world focused on the unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution passed last week recognizing the interim Iraqi government. Even...
...long as anyone can remember, and that despite the fact that the ongoing violence has killed scores of Iraqis and around a dozen coalition troops in the past seven days. The good news has been the emergence of a new transatlantic consensus on Iraq showcased at the G8 summit hosted by President Bush off the coast of Georgia, and codified in a unanimous UN Security Council resolution endorsing the U.S. plan to transfer sovereignty to Iraq's new interim government on June...
...order to get the UN resolution passed in time for the G8 summit, the U.S. was forced to concede to the principle of Iraqi security forces being under Iraqi government control. That's not as much as a sacrifice as it seems; the manner in which the U.S. military has conducted itself in the wake of Fallujah and in its search for a political solution to the standoff with Sadr supporters suggests that it has no inclination now to launch large-scale offensives. Its mission, increasingly, is safeguarding Iraq's government and infrastructure until such time as those functions...