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...kind of geopolitical checkers match, as the Swedish Academy plucks major figures from the national literatures of far-flung countries: China (Gao Xingjian, 2000) Trinidad and Tobago (V.S. Naipaul, 2001), Hungary (Irme Kertesz, 2002), South Africa (J.M. Coetzee, 2003), Austria (Elfriede Jelinek, 2004), England (Harold Pinter, 2005), Turkey (Orhan Pamuk, 2006). By choosing Doris Lessing in 2007 the Academy has scored a triple: she was born in Iran, known then as Persia, in 1919; raised in Zimbabwe, known then as Rhodesia; and lives in the U.K. In its citation, the academy called her "that epicist of the female experience...
...Turkey's government has denounced a resolution approved by a U.S. House of Representatives committee that calls the 1915 massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a genocide. The measure passed on Wednesday despite extraordinary last-minute efforts by Bush Administration officials, including the President himself, to have it shelved out of concern that it could hurt relations with a key NATO ally and affect U.S. troops in Iraq. Seventy percent of American air cargo and a third of the fuel the U.S. uses in neighboring Iraq passes through the its air base in Incirlik in southern Turkey. Prior...
While his fellow Mouseketeers excelled at singing and dancing, young Ryan acted in a few sketches but mostly whiled away his days scalping his free Disney World passes to families in the parking lot or riding Space Mountain and eating the giant smoked turkey legs sold at the park. At one point, when his parents were divorcing, Gosling moved in with Timberlake's family. He also got a reputation for corrupting his fellow Mouseketeers with detailed descriptions of sexual positions. "All the kids would talk about what kids talk about," he says. "I guess I was talking about...
...movies, complete with high-budget special effects (for example, Salvador Dalí, at London’s Tate Modern), easily digested storylines (Hopper, at the MFA), and big-name stars (Cezanne and Picasso, at the Musée d’Orsay). Granted, you snack on a 12-dollar turkey-and-avocado sandwich instead of 4-dollar popcorn, but you enjoy the A/C for two hours and walk out into the bright sunlight all the same at the end. Perhaps you’ll discuss the experience with your date (“So, did he really...
...issue extends beyond how students dress their hair to the broader question of how secular women can thrive in a Muslim society. In an interview last weekend, Serif Mardin, a prominent liberal sociologist, cautioned against social changes that could impinge on the freedoms of non-religious women in Turkey. "I am 100% convinced that the ban on headscarves is an anti-democratic practice," he told Hurriyet. "But I also believe Turkish women are justified in thinking that their status is in jeopardy...