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...sure, Enron has opened a new wind turbine plant south of Madrid, right in the heart of the European market. And Cannon, a U.S. wind-energy developer, has launched big projects in Turkey. But the wind turbines Cannon is installing are made by Danish firms...
...Erdogan's turn to weep tears, but of joy. In 1999 he was released after serving four months of a 10-month sentence. On June 22 Turkey's Constitutional Court banned the Virtue Party for being a "focal point of anti-secular"; activities, a development that leaves Erdogan, 47, in perfect position to lead a large number of rebel M.P.s, tired of the autocratic leadership of the disbanded Virtue Party, into a new party of their...
...Opinion surveys suggest that an Erdogan-led party - one that would battle corruption and value individual liberties above the needs of the state - would stand a good chance at the polls. Turkey's economic crisis has cut deep, and many of those hurt by unemployment and rising prices are looking for someone to voice their woes. Some argue that getting the buses to run on time and water from the reservoirs to the taps in a city like Istanbul, home to nearly a fifth of the Turkish population, is good training for running the country at large. Erdogan was born...
...Ignoring widespread protests from human rights activists concerned that granting Beijing its Olympic dream will signal acceptance of its repressive political regime, IOC officials gave the nod to anxious Chinese officials, at 10 p.m. local time, choosing Beijing over chief rivals Toronto and Paris. Istanbul, Turkey and Osaka, Japan had also placed bids...
...Above all, though, Yorkin and Lear yearn to make it in the movies. The failure that each nurses most lovingly is a film. With Yorkin it is "Start the Revolution Without Me," a 1970 farce about the French Revolution that he produced and directed. With Lear it is "Cold Turkey," a 1971 satire in which he directed his own script about an Iowa town that collectively kicks the smoking habit. Erratic but lively and intriguing, both works were just slightly out of sync with the shifting rhythms of public taste that Yorkin and Lear's TV shows have always caught...