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...vivid example is The Music Lesson, circa 1662-64. The foreground is occupied by the elephantine bulk of a table draped in a Turkish carpet. Its thick folds of wool and the blue tracery on its shadowed flank, which looks dull in reproduction but fairly blazes in the original, delay your eye as it tries to get into the picture. More obstacles are built into the space between the carpet and the figures at the end of the room. There is a white pitcher on the table, a sky-blue chair with gleaming brass tack heads, and finally the voluptuous...
...Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller resigned, and the country's two secular, pro-Western center-right parties scrambled to form an unlikely coalition, after the Islamic-oriented Welfare Party won Turkey's parliamentary elections with 21% of the vote. Although Ciller's True Path Party and the Motherland Party have long been bitter foes, the victory by the Islamists was enough to spur the former enemies to try to cooperate in forming a government. All other major parties have rejected the idea of creating a coalition with Welfare...
...government does not decide who these professors are going to be, and it is the university community that should always decide, on the basis of scholarly credentials and academic achievement, who gets this chair," Benhabib added. "The Turkish government should not and, I think, will not have direct influence as to who this chair will be occupied...
...will be a [professor of Turkish studies] who will be appointed, but that is the only thing that will be stipulated," Frye said...
Frye speculated that the gift from the Turkish government was motivated by the success of similar endowed chairs for Armenian studies. Harvard has had such a chair since...