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Turkey's Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk might sleep a little easier tonight - or not. A series of dramatic arrests over the weekend has laid bare what is alleged to be a shadowy network of ultra-nationalist killers with connections in high places. Their hit list allegedly included the famous writer, targeted for speaking out about Turkey's patchy treatment of its minorities...
...Tonight we played probably our closest effort to a 60-minute game we’ve played all season,” co-captain Mike Taylor said, echoing the well-known philosophy of a certain local football coach. “I thought we really played all three periods well for the first time in a while...
...meantime, Huckabee is working to keep his supporters optimistic. "Let me just say that tonight is not a time to start asking, what if? It's a time to start talking about, what now?" Huckabee told a cheering crowd of hundreds that failed to fill a ballroom at the Columbia Convention Center. "I don't want us to leave here saying, well, the game has ended. No, we have just finished one of the quarters of play." One quarter, perhaps, but two very critical steps...
...Tonight is a victory of optimism over Washington-style pessimism," Mitt Romney said after winning the primary in Michigan, the state where he was born and where his father governed. This was, as is Romney's wont, distillate of hokum. The former Massachusetts governor remains the most pessimistic of candidates, always assuming the worst about the public?and never taking a difficult position or telling a hard truth. In Michigan, he suddenly opposed higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, included in the recent energy bill signed by the President. He also chided John McCain for telling the hard truth that...
...Given that choice, Michigan primary voters, who picked McCain over Bush in 2000, abandoned their hero in droves. The result was a decisive victory for Romney, who took 39% of the vote to McCain's 30%. (Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee won 16%.) "Tonight," Romney declared in Southfield on election night, "marks a victory of optimism over Washington-style pessimism...