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...attempt to lift a ban on women wearing head scarves at university. Erdogan easily returned to power in a snap election he called in July 2007 in response to a possible coup threat by the army. This July, the AKP won a court case brought by the nation's chief prosecutor, who sought to outlaw the party on the grounds that it was antisecular. But these political struggles have been an awkward distraction at a critical time, and may have scared off potential foreign investors. In a report this month, Wolfango Piccoli, a Turkey expert at consultants Eurasia Group, wrote...
Green was on the tip of Harvard undergraduates’ tongues last night as they feasted on a Sustainable Dinner composed entirely of local ingredients. The dinner, which featured autumn vegetable soup and cider-and-thyme-steamed mussels, was Harvard University Dining Services’ chief contribution to the University’s Sustainability Week. “Sustainability is something that we’ve focused an enormous amount of attention on and is one of our department’s overriding goals,” said HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin. “[This dinner] is a great...
...Instead of full reimbursement, the hospital system now receives 60 to 70 cents for each dollar of uncompensated medical service provided, according to its chief financial officer Gordon H. Boudrow...
...Still, Khodaydad is aware that his honesty has unintended consequences. For one thing, there's the $30,000 price on his head. He doesn't know exactly who set the hit, but he has been warned repeatedly. One suspect, he says, is Farah's provincial police chief Khalilullah Rahmani. "Because I am not paying Khalil [Rahmani], he is forced to take the money I would give him in other ways," says Khodaydad. One of those ways, say both Khodaydad and his U.S. mentors, is by withholding vital supplies such as fuel and ammunition to sell on the black market. Rahmani...
Such gestures have come more frequently in recent months as Sudan tries to shut down the ICC investigations, experts say. For a couple of years, Sudan seemed to have regarded the Hague-based International Criminal Court dismissively, but its focus was sharpened in July when Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo sought an arrest warrant for President Bashir himself. During the annual General Assembly session last month, Sudan pressed its case with other countries. The Bashir government warned that Sudan could cancel all its agreements with the U.N. if the ICC case goes ahead. "It is not true that the government...