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...change, having failed to see Erdogan deliver on campaign promises like the lifting of a ban on head scarves in universities and public offices. For them E.U. membership is a potential guarantee against military rule and restrictive laws aimed at curbing religious expression. Last week Erdogan heeded that base and Turkey's other pro-E.U. voices. He circumvented a local court ruling, and hence enabled the conference on the Armenian massacres of 1915 to go ahead - the first meeting of its kind ever to be held in Turkey. "There's no turning back for [Erdogan] now," says Altinay...
...social studies concentrator in Eliot House, hails from the Cambridge of the Southwest, Santa Fe, New Mexico. In his column, “Base Politics,” which will run on alternate Mondays, he will try to justify his life by making the peons of electoral politics seem important...
...Museum is being resurrected on the Brisbane River. While local firm Architectus' competition-winning design does appear to float, with a 12-m winged canopy and 9,000 sq. m of glass, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art is anchored by the black box of a cinema at its base. Two theaters and an exhibition space will form the hub of Australia's first Cinematheque within an art museum, when it opens with the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in November 2006. "One of the most important visual arts of the 20th century is cinema," says director Hall...
...Pentagon officials were relieved that the storm looked like it would bypass much of Texas. The state is home to Ft. Hood, the Army's largest base, and dozens of other military Installations with tens of thousands of soldiers and their families. There is also the vital defense industry-all the big contractors have facilities in Texas and a big natural disaster could potentially damage the military industrial base. Another concern was the ports of Beaumont and Galveston, which are key debarkation points for U.S. troops and goods going to Iraq and Afghanistan. "We're not just looking at Rita...
...Senator Obama said last week. The current debate on poverty is likely to blow away by the time hurricane season ends. But Katrina and Rita offer those who actually care about poor people a chance to rethink their strategy. Certainly it is time to move beyond victimhood and race-based aggrievement to something more intelligent and inclusive. There are nearly twice as many poor white people living in the U.S. as poor blacks; the black poverty rate diminished dramatically-from 33.4% to 22.5%-during the Clinton Administration (it has risen to 24.7% under Bush); and the recent increase in poverty...