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ANKARA, Turkey: The first Islamic party to form a government in modern Turkey narrowly won a vote of confidence Monday under a leader who had promised to yank the staunch U.S. ally out of NATO and evict thousands of strategic U.S. troops from the country. But since his election as prime minister last month, Necmettin Erbakan has backed away from his opposition to the West and said that attaining full membership in the European Union would be one of his party's "ultimate goals." TIME's James Wilde reports from the Turkish capital: "Erbakan has made a 180-degree turn...
...this, McCormack insists, "we were ignorant, and to the extent that that ignorance is a failure on our part, then we deserve some of this heat." St. Martin's is not the first U.S. publisher to yank a controversial book off its list. In the most celebrated recent instance, Simon & Schuster decided in 1990 not to release Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho after advance reviewers complained about its voyeuristic scenes of women being tortured. (Knopf later bought the discarded manuscript and published it in paperback.) But the St. Martin's case is more complex because it involves a work...
...head-butting a NBA referee. The suit is tailored to accentuate Rodman's tattoos in the most obvious way: the sleeves are cut off." Although all the attention is an advertiser's dream come true, it's also a commuter's nightmare. Bigsby & Kruthers CEO Gene Silverberg may yank the advertisement, but not before repainting Rodman's hair brilliant red to match the color he's chosen for his return to the Bulls Tuesday night...
...head-butting a NBA referee. The suit is tailored to accentuate Rodman's tattoos in the most obvious way: the sleeves are cut off." Although all the attention is an advertiser's dream come true, it's also a commuter's nightmare. Bigsby & Kruthers CEO Gene Silverberg may yank the advertisement, but not before repainting Rodman's hair brilliant red to match the color he's chosen for his return to the Bulls Tuesday night...
...head-butting a NBA referee. The suit is tailored to accentuate Rodman's tattoos in the most obvious way: the sleeves are cut off." Although all the attention is an advertiser's dream come true, it's also a commuter's nightmare. Bigsby & Kruthers CEO Gene Silverberg may yank the advertisement, but not before repainting Rodman's hair brilliant red to match the color he's chosen for his return to the Bulls Tuesday night...