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...Presidency, the Prime Minister's office and the Speaker of the Parliament. (In parliamentary elections later this year , the AKP is expected to be returned to power, albeit with a reduced mandate). The election to all three top positions of officials who "come from the same Islamic-rooted tree," writes columnist Metin Munir in the leading secularist daily Milliyet, augurs "the end of Turkey as we know it. "Turkey, he warned, is about to enter "a period of Islamicizing and conservatism: It is hard to tell where it will...
...Friedman, in his rambling April 15 article in the New York Times Magazine, sees promise in this “geostrategic, geoeconomic” green movement. A testosterone injection will transform the stereotypical environmentalist from effete tree-hugger into gun-toting patriot. Picture it now: Dick Cheney, a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club. And many environmentalists might accept this recasting as well. They recognize that another terrorist attack strikes fear in a way that, say, melting icecaps just don’t. Clean energy, now cast in a muscular light, can be supported by conservatives?...
...sudden pursuit of hipness among the nation’s tree-hugging, granola crunchers...
Though it rolled into the Ivy League Championships with seemingly unstoppable momentum, the Harvard women’s golf team found itself dragging to a disappointing finish, finally slowed down by this year’s cold, wet spring. The narrow, tree-lined fairways and fast, sloping greens at the Trenton Country Club in Trenton, N.J., confounded the Crimson, which finished fourth of seven teams in the three-round tournament, shooting a 110 over-par 974 (326-329-319), which put it 41 strokes behind first-place Columbia and 21 strokes behind third-place Yale. “We?...
...with a dead-end life. McCormick apparently couldn’t resist the juxtaposition of Mercer’s lines “Been alone since you were 21 / You haven’t laughed since January” with a shot of keyboardist Marty Crandall in a pine tree costume diving into a moving van filled with stolen balloons. The band takes their contraband to an idyllic field where they release the orange balloons that match their jumpsuits—shallowly symbolic, but forgivable. The imprisoned balloons are gleefully liberated into the air just as Mercer sings...