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Someday, that day may never come...

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Genelkurmay'ın direktifi ile Mehmet Ali Birant'ı servis haberlerle bir anda terörist ilan eden basından ne kadar midem kalktıysa alkol yasaklarının gündemde olduğu günlerde aşağıdaki haberi ( http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/id/25445738 ) manşet geçen NTV de o kadar midemi kaldırdı: Birisi içki masasında bir cinayeti itiraf ediyor. Ne suç işlenirken, ne azmettirilirken içki yok işin içinde. 4 Milyarlık Galataport ihalesini 700 milyon dolara alan bir holdingin haber portalı ise bu haberin Türkiye'ye sunduğu en önemli 8 haberden biri olduğunu düşünüyor. Aklıma ne geldi: VITO CORLEONE (after Bonasera kisses his hand) Some day, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But uh, until that day -- accept this justice as a gift on my daughter's wedding day.

Curious Cases of Banana, Rhubarb and Işgın

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Contrary to what creationists want you to think ( Banana: The Atheists' Nightmare ), the delicious starch cubes once looked like this: Thanks to a thousand years of best Genetic Modification by small farmers, the seeds were gone. As a result, all the bananas you eat are more or less the fruits of the same plants, which have been asexually produced over and over again. I came across a similar case of wild origins of a well-known European plant in my recent visit to Erzurum. Favorite of pie-makers across the western world, Rhubarb looks clean and nicely shaped like this: Virtually unknown in western Turkey, the wild cousin, or perhaps ancestor of Rhubarb is known as Işgın in Eastern Turkey: To close the this curious circle, the Wild Rhubarb is known as the Mountain Banana in Eastern Turkey.

No to Gatsby or “I can’t even hear myself think.”

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This ( http://life.nationalpost.com/2013/05/18/mireille-silcoff-baz-luhrmanns-great-gatsby-and-the-schlock-of-the-new/ ) is the most fitting review in my opinion of the movie otherwise known as Luhrman's Great Gatsby, or as Mireille Silcoff calls it aptly: a book which has, over the years, seemed to subtly presage the state of America in a slightly different way every decade; a book which Luhrmann has here reduced to the depth of blingy video game. For a more respectful homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald and cinema here's The Ballad of a Thin Man from I'm Not There with Cate Blanchete as Dylan: