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Turkey, which has fought a vicious war to suppress the P.K.K., hoped Ocalan's capture would decapitate the rebellion and finally bring it to an end. But the well-orchestrated reaction among Europe's 850,000 Kurds suggested that their quest for independence is hardly over. Indeed, the arrest and trial of Ocalan (pronounced Oh-ja-lan) could boomerang, uniting fractious Kurds and galvanizing global sympathy for their cause. For now, though, many Turks are too busy celebrating...
There are no easy answers to the mounting U.S. current account imbalance. The normal strategy would be for Washington to raise interest rates, but that would create a vicious circle: depress the stock market, diminish consumer spending and drive foreign money away. Lipp hopes the threat of a recession would provoke quick agreement among the G-7 countries to cut interest rates and taxes. But Hormats cautioned that in the U.S. there's no prospect of easy accord between Clinton and the Republican Congress on cutting taxes or, even harder, deficit spending. Expect a lot of Washington jawboning this year...
Heston, a former Time-Warner shareholder, was outraged by the lyrics "celebrating ambushing and murdering police officers," and attended the annual stockholders' meeting to "simply read the full lyrics of 'Cop Killer,' every vicious, vulgar, instructional word...
...other noteworthy performance is Jon Voight as the vicious glory hog of a coach. His convincing tantrums and abusive treatment of his players stir up the necessary antipathy from the audience so that when he's ousted in the end, everyone is ready to cheer his demise...
...face the hellish lottery process again, he reveals to FM he will no longer teach his "Warren Court." Horwitz has chosen to focus on his other Core class, "The Rise of a Critical Movement of Law, 1920-1940," last offered five years ago and considerably less popular. The vicious bite of the monster has Horwitz on the retreat...