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...only to derail talks but also to discredit Erdogan, accession's most enthusiastic proponent. Many see his concessions as a betrayal of Turkish national interests. "Tayyip bey," says Kerinçsiz dismissively, "has dug his own grave." In the runup to the E.U. talks, Turkey's two main right-wing and nationalist parties - which together form the main opposition to Erdogan's government - mobilized, bringing tens of thousands of sympathizers onto the streets of several cities, including Ankara. These protests grabbed attention in Turkey, but it was the case brought by a state prosecutor against the world-renowned novelist Orhan...
...main thread running through “Forging the New” is conflict: between East and West, between old and new, between representation and abstraction; and the styles represented are largely depictions of individual artists’ reactions to these tensions. Utsumi Nobuhiko’s “Innerscape: Manifestation,” for example, propels traditional Japanese ink across a water-covered sheet of paper using a powerful dryer—combining an old medium with a new technique. Meanwhile, “Early Spring” by He Huaishuo features a classical Chinese subject matter...
...There will be, definitely, changes. They had an eye for flexibility—whatever the show was, it wasn’t going to be something that you couldn’t move around and try things out with. I think that’s one of the main advantages of this year’s script, that it’s flexible...
...begun, like fortunately few days that summer, with the smell of vomit and the sound of retching. Matt and Andrew had been out until 4 a.m. drinking on Bourbon Street—New Orleans’ main stretch, where, before Hurricane Katrina drowned the city, Mardi Gras beads were available year-round and brightly lit bars served frozen cocktails from spinning machines, 7-Eleven-style. But the vomiting was all courtesy of an anonymous roommate they’d met in the bunk beds of their hostel, a place called India House. They shrugged it off, washed their faces...
...meeting someone who doesn’t attend Harvard. The planner states, “Never invite a person whom you have met on the street, in a bar, or in another public place back to your room.” Following this logic would negate one of the main reasons for going to Harvard: the H-Bomb. How else is a Harvard guy supposed to get some action if he can’t drop one to some girl from BU? No, seriously, how? Some of our editors want to know...