Training Your Human

Training your human is a thankless task.
“Why bother with it?”, some kittens may ask.
The fate of the world is the issue at hand,
as felines worldwide stake a claim for their land.
Make no bones about it, we cats own the joint.
We spray in the corners to drive home the point.Some say the meek shall inherit the [...]

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Ataturk’s Turkey Overturned

Ataturk’s Turkey Overturned

By HILLEL HALKIN
July 24, 2007

Some 12 or 13 years ago, when I was reporting from Israel for the New York weekly, the Forward, I wrote a piece on Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern secular Turkey, that I submitted to the newspaper with some trepidation.
In it, I presented evidence for the likelihood of [...]

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The new post-election parliament

The new post-election parliament has a unique spectrum of parties. Unlike its monolithic predecessor, diversity has reared it head in the form of two ‘new’ parties. The first is the 38 year old Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). The second is the Democratic Society Party (DTP), which won its seats by fielding its candidates as independents. [...]

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No need to fear of Gul

Articles & Analysises

This time round, Abdullah Gul will surely become Turkey’s president—to the annoyance of the army and the secular establishment. Economist says there is no need to fear of Gul
‘Presidential troubles, again’ – 17 / 08 / 2007 10:09

There was an ineluctable sense of déjà vu this week when Turkey’s foreign minister, [...]

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Ignore politics at your own peril

One of the occupational hazards of being a professional economist is that our forecasts are sometimes wrong. Real world situations are usually very complex, non-linear and therefore difficult to predict. In order to simplify complicated real world problems, we make assumptions.
Obviously, a change in the underlying assumptions can send a whole forecast in an opposite [...]

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