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...night of April 23-24, 1915, 300 Armenian political, religious and intellectual leaders in Constantinople were rounded up, deported to Anatolia and put to death by order of Young Turk officials. These murders were not Turkey's first crimes against its largest minority population; in 1895, for example, every district of Turkish Armenia was subject to systematic pogroms that resulted in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Armenians, demands to renounce their faith and looting and burning of their villages and businesses. The 1915 event served as a catalyst for what statesmen and humanitarians have referred...
...November 1997, while other prominent universities refused similar offers, Harvard accepted a grant from Vebhi Koc, a wealthy Turk with strong ties to his government, for the establishment of a Turkish Studies chair. In 1993, the Turkish government itself had contributed money toward the funding of this chair at Harvard. Perhaps indicative of the strong influence Turkey would like to have over scholarly research into its history was the presence of the Turkish Ambassador, Nusret Kandemir, on the occasion of the chair's establishment. He was reported to have proclaimed at that time, "This professorship will help reveal the truth...
Another Young Turk, Christine Baxter, 29, thinks her age helps her relate to young tech entrepreneurs she tracks as manager of the $1.2 billion PBHG Emerging Growth Fund. "This is an incredibly taxing business [that requires so much] energy," says Baxter, a philosophy major who has averaged a 20% return since 1995. Says Kurt Brower, author of Mutual Fund Mastery: "It's like surgeons--eventually they have to operate." Investors can only hope that if things go bad, these green managers can stop the bleeding...
...think of Renaissance portraiture as straightforward: here's Duke X, the man to the life, speaking through his realistic effigy; that's the armor he wore when he did the Turk in--and so forth. Lotto's portraits tend to be more complicated than that. Take, for instance, his magnificently assured portrait of Andrea Odoni, 1527. Odoni, a rich Venetian, collected Greco-Roman antiquities, and the clue to this painting is the statuette he shows in his hand--an image of Artemis, goddess of the Ephesians, denounced by St. Paul. But his other hand clasps a crucifix to his breast...
...therein lies the problem. As Solatzo the Turk says, "Blood is a big expense," and in reality being bad is all fun and games until someone loses an eye--or, in Bugsy's case, a head. After a tiff over Vegas (Bugsy said yes, Lucky said no, and the mafia world was divided forever after over the fate of America's top sleazepost), Luciano had Seigel shot, ending an era of mafia power that only the Corliones could revive. In Puzio's restive family we see all that Lansky and his pals could never capture: the tranquility...