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...critical for Turkey, opening international money markets and encouraging direct foreign investment. "The European Union is the key to getting the economy right," says Yavuz Canevi, chairman of Turk Economy Bank and a former Central Bank governor. "If Turkey manages to open negotiations with Brussels by December, this would transform Turkey's international position dramatically." That is an optimistic view that voters, with their devalued lira and lack of faith in political parties, may be too weary to enjoy. As with past earthquakes, much damage has been done - but a great deal of pressure has also been released...
Person of the Week CANCELLED He took Vivendi Universal on a corporate buying spree, trying to transform a staid, provincial French utilities firm into a multinational media giant. But Jean-Marie Messier overreached and Vivendi's stock price collapsed, leading to his dismissal as company chairman last week...
...strain, and there's considerable fear in Arab capitals that this tension will be exacerbated if - or more likely when - the U.S. ignores their reservations and invades Iraq. The Bush administration appears to be calculating that decisive action to eliminate the noxious regime in Baghdad will do more to transform the political climate in the Arab world than piecemeal interventions into the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Al-Qaeda may be putting its money on the opposite outcome. So despite what may have been achieved in Afghanistan, the battle between the U.S. and al-Qaeda for Arab hearts and minds may still...
...patient, detail-oriented man, LaHaye can transform complex biblical passages into a map showing what he believes to be the very battle plans for the last world war, beginning with the massing of the Antichrist's armies in northern Israel and ending with Christ's ascent on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. Jenkins skillfully filters the outlines that LaHaye provides through the adventures of heroes Rayford Steele, a pilot, and Cameron ("Buck") Williams, who starts out Left Behind as a 30-year-old virgin and senior writer for TIME's fictional competitor Global Weekly. Their mission is to help...
DIED. J. CARTER BROWN, 67, patrician populist who, as head of Washington's National Gallery of Art, helped transform America's museums from dusty vaults to extravagant showplaces for the masses; of multiple myeloma; in Boston. During his 23-year tenure, Brown boosted federal funding for the gallery and repositioned it as a rival of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. He pioneered the phenomenon of the blockbuster exhibition with such shows as King Tut and Andrew Wyeth's "Helga" series...