Word: ades
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...response? Two weeks of often angry demonstrations around the country. Last week the government relented by postponing a 16% rise in phone rates, and promising to review plans to boost electricity rates by about 6% and fuel by up to 22%. But postponements and promises aren't enough, complains Ade Rostina, a spokeswoman for Voices of Mothers Who Care, especially after a recent executive decision that nixed criminal charges for bank owners who had fraudulently misused massive federal loans. "The President doesn't mind giving breaks to corrupt bankers. Why should we have to sacrifice so that they...
...Glaswegian upbringing. The visuals would certainly be striking. Mullan's family led an outwardly prosperous life in a large pillared house that his mother instructed him and his seven siblings to tell people was owned, not rented. The lie fostered an illusion of affluence, but behind the façade, says Mullan, "we didn't even have any furniture. We were dirt poor." The family's emotional landscape was even more barren. Mullan's father, an alcoholic World War II veteran, was an abusive and distant figure who seemed actively to court his family's contempt. When Mullan...
...winning trust is not easy in Aceh?especially when heavily armed units routinely patrol nearby villages in armored personnel carriers with heavy machine-guns mounted on the roof. "An attack can happen at any time, any place," warns army intelligence officer Captain Adrain Ade, an assault-rifle on his lap, as he scans passing villages for signs of rebel activity. His destination today is the distant village of Montasik, where another TNI platoon is camped out in a disused rice warehouse. Conditions are cramped and squalid, and the sense of siege is palpable. Platoon leader Captain Heri Sumitro says...
...permanently across from the entrance to Lamont Library. The work, not created to fit this specific site but intended by the artist to be displayed outdoors, was donated to the University in 1981. A less prominent but equally permanent work of public art is displayed on the façade of the main office of the OFA itself on Mt. Auburn St. The artist, Richard Fleischner, “was asked to create a work...to communicate that ‘arts happen here,’” relates McCormick...
...recent interview with The Crimson, she recalled the emotional roller coaster she was on as she wrote the poem, her sense of confusion and powerlessness, as though her entire world had been turned upside down. The poem disguised her fears beneath a façade of anger and threats. It was, she said, “just a fantasy,” certainly not something she ever expected to act on. It was just a dream she played out in her head...