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Blame Europe for jilting its lover. Even moderate Turks were galled by the European Union’s refusal to discuss membership with Turkey last year. Earlier this year, Italy refused to turn over to Turkey Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK, a Kurdish separatist group; that triggered anti-European riots on the main streets of Istanbul. In recent months, funerals of Turkish soldiers or civilians killed during clashes with the PKK have turned into emotional demonstrations in favor of Turkish unity....

Kolodziejek spent the entire war in the camps. He worked for three horrific years at Auschwitz, eventually at a job carting rubber solvents for IG Farben, the German chemical giant. Later he constructed planes for Messerschmitt at Mauthausen, a slave-labor camp operated by the Nazis in Austria. His experience is a reminder of the strategy behind the thousand-year Reich’s 12-year reign. Nazi Europe was run as a kind of pyramid scheme: conquer a country, then enslave its citizens to empower the machine to conquer more....

Singing mostly obscure works by Bernstein, Sondheim, Weill and the lesser-known Marc Blitzstein, her soprano conveys a freshness that is closer to cabaret than Bizet. But rather than burying her operatic roots, Upshaw uses her classical skills – impeccable phrasing and controlled vocal power – to establish character and emotion. She does best with two Kurt Weill songs from “Lady in the Dark” – the lilting “The Saga of Jenny” and “My Ship,” in which her dreamy voice actually begins to sound like the wind in the song’s silky sails....

Like Russia, it offered a well-educated work force at wages one tenth of what the company was paying in Finland. Unlike Russia, law and order ruled. What’s more, Finns and Estonians shared a culture. As part of the tiny Finno-Ungric language group, they could actually talk to each other. And Estonia was practically next door. Its capital, Tallinn, lies just 60 kilometers from Helsinki, a short ferry ride or plane hop across the Baltic Sea....

On ‘Princess Power’: “I like that Disney is selling the princesses to women like me: empowerment and pretty dresses need not be mutually exclusive. Cooler still would be Disney ‘Historical Heroines’ with Mulan, Pocahontas and Susan B. Anthony.” Katharine Tapely Worcester, Mass. E-books would not be appropriate for one large category of books: publications where quality illustrations are important. How would a book about Frank Lloyd Wright or Michelangelo show up on the small-format handheld?...

In this fast-food, face-lift, no-fault-divorce world of ours, the slate roof feels like the closest we will come to eternity. It, and the three children for whom it is really being laid down. Another Mother’s Day has come and gone as the roofers work away in the pale May sun and the gray May rain. It is a silly holiday, and not for all the reasons people mention most, not because it was socially engineered to benefit card shops, florists and those who slake the guilt of neglect with once-a-year homage....

Let’s start with the unmistakable signs of Europe’s recovery. Its stock markets are buoyant. In 1997 the German market is up about 50 percent, the Italian 35 percent and the British 20 percent. Surveys of business confidence show big gains. Growth prospects have improved. Economist Thomas Mayer of Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt predicts that Europe’s gross domestic product will increase 2.3 percent in 1997 and 2.6 percent in 1998, up from 1....

If there were a magic bullet, though, it might be something like dichloroacetate, or DCA, a drug that kills cancer cells by exploiting a fundamental weakness found in a wide range of solid tumors. So far, though, it kills them just in test tubes and in rats infected with human cancer cells; it has never been tested against cancer in living human beings. There are countless compounds that can do the same thing that never turn into viable treatments....

Lufthansa introduced the service in response to the demand of business travelers like Kiefert. The airline says it has no immediate plans to apply the idea to other routes. But faced with the worst downturn in the history of commercial aviation, the airline industry is clearly becoming more open to novel solutions. And chief among these, say many insiders, is a move toward a partial–and perhaps eventually total–segregation of business and leisure travel....

SPRINT MUSIC STORE Demand instant gratification? For $2.50 (plus a minimum $15-per-month data plan), you can buy and download a track to your phone in less than a minute. The simple interface makes it easy to search for a song or artist and listen to 30-second previews. You can also tune in to radio, including 20 channels of Sirius ($6.95 per month) or Sprint Radio, featuring content from the likes of NPR and ESPN ($5....

The research team, which included a medical student, created their hiccup cure that relies on a technique called forceful suction that signals the diaphragm to contract and ultimately stops the spasms. The team called the process “forced inspiratory suction and swallow tool (FISST)” and named the device they created using it HiccAway. To test the device, the researchers gave HiccAway to 249 adults who said that they got hiccups often....

Art critic Peter Plagens’s first novel, Time for Robo (Black Heron. $24.95), is what you’d expect from a guy whose first NEWSWEEK piece compared Cezanne to Ernest Tubb–a surreal waltz across space, time and cultures. Ex-hoops star Robo is a lost soul in search of Dad and the meaning of life. Our narrator, by the way, is a computer that quacks like a duck.

While conservatives may have hoped to attain an even larger majority in the nationwide series of votes that took place Tuesday, securing enough to take control of the lower chamber of Congress would give Republicans added influence in affecting the administration’s outlook on key hotspots across the globe. Key among these are a strained bilateral relationship with China, Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, and uncertainties over Iran, with whom resurrecting a nuclear deal seemed perhaps more unlikely than at any time during Biden’s presidency....

Thirteen years later, Amman reversed its policy during the 2003 Iraq invasion. The Hashemite Kingdom allowed U.S.-led coalition aircrafts to fly over Jordan to assist in the war effort and hosted American troops in apparent gestures to Washington. Jordan’s ideological flexibility with Iraq decades ago and willingness to dramatically change policies to safeguard its own national interests foreshadowed a similar about-face now taking place in Amman toward its neighbors....

Speaking publicly for the first time since his suspension was reduced last Friday to 162 games, Rodriguez changed his tune about the situation, telling reporters it could be beneficial in helping rest his body. "I think in the year 2014, the league could have done me a favor because I've played 20 years without a timeout," Rodriguez said, according to The Associated Press. Rodriguez made his comments in Spanish at the opening of the Alex Rodriguez Energy Fitness Center in Mexico City....

The newspaper reviewed a 15-page synopsis of A-Rod’s interview at a Drug Enforcement Administration conference room on Jan. 29. He was talking to federal agents and prosecutors who granted him immunity in their on-going probe of the now-shuttered clinic. — Sporting News select each MLB team’s most infamous moment “Yes, he bought performance-enhancing drugs from Biogenesis of America, paying roughly $12,000 a month to Anthony Bosch, the fake doctor who owned the clinic,” the newspaper reports in its summary of Rodriguez’s interview....

The Yankees slugger was touring the halls of Congress on Wednesday when he slipped in to a Trade Promotion Authority meeting, according to the New York Daily News. Luckily for Rodriguez, the House Ways and Means committee seemed excited about his unannounced drop in. “Well, I was fortunate to get an offer. How can you turn that down? It was a fun day,” Rodriguez said. “Just like any American, it was great to see Capitol Hill and to see where all the laws were made....

Nicolas Curcio’s imaginative script for Barron: A Tale of Love, Loss & Legacy made the 15th annual Black List, which each year highlights the best screenplays doing the rounds in Hollywood that have yet to be made. Previous movies recognized by the Black List include Late Night, the Mindy Kaling-scripted comedy that finally got made and released this year, and Queen & Slim, written by Lena Waithe. In Barron, a then 10-year-old Barron Trump tries to sabotage Trump’s 2016 election chances fearing the impact the business mogul’s presidency might have on his personal life and the world at large....

What will be remembered is Chavez as he seemed-and perhaps really was-in the 1960s: a secular saint in the tradition of Gandhi, whose autobiography was one of his inspirations. Chavez, too, was a vegetarian and an ascetic-even in later years, no one accused him of a secret taste for decadent luxuries-but unlike the upper-caste lawyer Gandhi, he didn’t have to impersonate one of the dispossessed. In 1937, when he was 10, his family was forced out of Arizona and into “Grapes of Wrath”-era California as migrant workers....

So begins yet another murky episode in the saga of the Democrats’ campaign-cash scandals–and this one has a particularly troubling twist. That is the fact that Tamraz, who as a backstage player in Middle Eastern politics has a long association with the CIA, tried to use his old friends at Langley–and his new pals at the DNC–to roll the National Security Council staff. ““The NSC is the high temple of the foreign-policy establishment,’’ a former official says....