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Istanbul owes its long-held historical significance to a strategic location at the mouth of the Bosphorus.
In any case, I was interested to notice that no Hermès-like silk scarves casually grazed secular female clavicles in Istanbul.
The Los Angeles Times notes that so many people died in the Turkish city of Izmut--located 65 miles east of Istanbul and perched over the epicenter--that the mayor turned the local ice skating rink into a backup morgue.
The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times lead with President Clinton's berating, at a conference in Istanbul, of Russian President Boris Yeltsin over the Russian military's assault on Chechnya--a story fronted (below the fold) by the Washington Post . USA Today leads with the U.S.
But in modern Istanbul, the scarf completely depersonalizes the shapely legs and curving torso displayed in contemporary clothes below it.