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...After taking power in last year's presidential election, Ramos-Horta laid plans to address East Timor's many problems. He vowed to focus on reconciliation after the 2006 riots, and promised to remake the security forces to make them representative of East Timorese from both the east and west ends of the country - an acrimonious ethnic divide. But rogue militias are still around, and the police are still drawn mainly from just the west side. Moreover, unemployment is rising ever higher, the judiciary remains weak, and thousands of refugees who fled past fighting continue to languish in makeshift camps...
...normal experience, encouraging members to maintain a dialogue with their voices so they can live peacefully with and even appreciate their presence. Studies suggest that these auditory hallucinations emerge following traumas ranging from the death of a loved one to outright abuse, so HVN encourages members to address the phenomenon with these origins in mind. In the past six years, HVN in England has doubled its number of support groups to more than 160 local chapters, and similar groups have cropped up in 17 other countries, from Japan to Finland...
Raůl Castro is a master of mixed signals. Cuba's interim President recently agreed to allow representatives from the United Nations Human Rights Council to visit the island next year to inspect its notorious prisons and address its dearth of free expression. It was a concession Fidel Castro had long sneered at, and to many it was a sign that Raúl, who has ruled Cuba since major intestinal surgery sidelined his elder brother in 2006, might be willing to break with family tradition. But even as Raúl reached out to the U.N., his state security agents were arresting...
...Simmons’s and Sean Comb’s voter mobilization efforts. “Our culture needs some positive reinforcement,” he said. Rivers echoed Dash’s sentiments, saying hip hop has filled a void created by the failure of black elites to address the problems of poor blacks of the inner-city. “The black elite left black people to die,” he said. BSA President Sarah O. Lockridge-Steckel ’09 said that she enjoyed the event which incorporated “a diverse array...
...lack of concrete data on which to pass judgement. Because Obama is a relative unknown, he can represent all forms of hope and change to all people. As a poster commented on Obama’s YouTube response to Bush’s last State of the Union Address: “Lets all remember that it was Obama that brought about the campaign of Hope and Change. I have never been this excited about the posibility of true political change. It’s time to fundamentally change this country’s government, to have have it working...