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Turkey’s highest courts rationalize these harsh measures against veiling by invoking the country’s constitutionally mandated secularism, which Kemal Ataturk imposed when he created modern Turkey out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.

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We explore ruins of Palestinian villages, and we discuss how they became ruins.

Well, if that ruins your life, well, then, you shouldn't live there.

If you had been in the ruins of, say, London in 1945, or Berlin, and you had said, "Sixty years from now, this is going to be the most peaceful, prosperous part of the planet," people would have thought you were certifiably insane.

I want to write about a tornado that comes into our house and blows all the windows out, and ruins all the furniture and kills everybody."

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