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...wells open to the sky. "People are beginning to realize the past has value," says Lim Huck Chin, a conservation architect. "Going out now has a more human face." See for yourself in one of these heritage hangouts. Saray: This palate-pleasing Turkish restaurant is decorated with hookahs and Turkey's famed Iznik tiles. The signature "Swooning Imam Beside Eggplant" dish comes with pita bread baked on the premises. An added bonus: in the evenings, erudite owner Fatima Chan holds forth on Ottoman art. tel: (60-3) 2694 9724 Bar SaVanh: Koi carp ponds, opium beds and mammoth buddha heads...
Pointing to Turkey, Peres described a Muslim government that is taking great strides to move toward modernity...
...indulges in music-bio clichés ("Ahmet, we gotta get that on wax!") and familiar, if potent, cold-turkey histrionics. But it paints vividly on a broad canvas, with attention to local color and the telling detail. The cast is terrific from top to bottom--Kerry Washington as Charles' wife; Regina King and Aunjanue Ellis as his singer-concubines; Sharron Warren as his tough-love mama; Clifton Powell as his friend and roadie; Bokeem Woodbine as sexy sax man David (Fathead) Newman. If there were an Oscar for ensemble acting, Ray would win in a stroll...
...stay away from their dogs--and imposing white turkeys like the one recently encountered in West Virginia guarding a house with menace in its eye. Rosenthal laid down a challenge to his canvasser: Get past the turkey. It took a few tries, but it was worth the risk. Says Rosenthal: "It turns out there were four Democrats in that house." --By Karen Tumulty
...only sign of Basayev's political interests, Taramov says, was his fascination with Che Guevara and "anyone else who carried a gun." In November 1991, Basayev shot to fame when he hijacked a plane in the southern Russian city of Mineralniye Vody and forced it to land in Turkey to draw attention to Chechnya's incipient independence struggle. Basayev released all the passengers unharmed, and the Turks allowed him to return to Chechnya. The Russians were strangely forgiving, too. Instead of arresting him, they gave him military training with an élite covert unit and the next year sent...