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...effective measures been taken to reduce overpopulation a generation ago, extreme poverty would not exist today. It is indeed unfortunate that we are led by the wishy-washy, who prefer to address poverty by providing developmental assistance while ignoring the options of birth control and family planning. Frank Scimone Amsterdam...
When Munir Said Thalib, Indonesia's most prominent human-rights campaigner, died during a Garuda Airlines flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam and was later found to have been poisoned with arsenic, his murder became a test of new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's pledge to run an open and accountable administration. Yudhoyono set up a 12-member commission consisting of human-rights activists, legal and justice department officials, and a police brigadier. Based on its early findings, police last week arrested a Garuda pilot, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, on suspicion of involvement in the activist's death...
...side of the neurosurgeon comes from the man who imagined him. At 56, McEwan swings up and down the stairs of his house with the ease of a man who still does his share of hiking, a passion of his. He has a Booker Prize for his 1998 novel Amsterdam, and several of his novels, including The Comfort of Strangers and Enduring Love, have beenturned into pretty good films. Moreover, judging from his descriptions of Perowne's marital bliss--"What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife"--McEwan's eight-year marriage must...
...worked for TIME since 1983, has won dozens of accolades, including the World Press Photo prize last month for best single photo of a contemporary issue in 2004. The World Press Photo awards, overseen by an international panel of 13 judges who meet every February in Amsterdam, are the world's most prestigious photojournalism competition. Jim received his first-place award for an image that appeared on TIME's cover last fall of a mother caring for her ill son in a refugee camp in Sudan...
...pair of protesters trying to show their banner. In the spirit of his speech, Bush should have asked that the protesters be allowed to wave their banner. It was another of Bush's missed opportunities and the only thing that made me smile on that miserable day. Kees Broertjes Amsterdam...