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...what it says about Indonesia as a whole. Yes, the police couldn't, and often didn't even try, to save the Madurese victims. The center of Sampit is decorated with a plinth commemorating Indonesia's 1948 independence, guarded by a life-size plaster statue of a policeman?an apt symbol of their frozen response to the crisis. Two battalions of soldiers were brought to Sampit a week after the massacres broke out to restore order, but Madurese houses continued to go up in flames long after their arrival. "That's not our job," was the bored comment from...
...there is an illusion of grand proportions at work. Any delegate expecting a vacation at Ivy Council conferences is sadly mistaken, and notions of unchecked spending on conferences are deeply flawed. Without disparaging our gracious, most recent hosts at Yale, a more apt description of Ivy Council conferences would be assembling students from eight schools on a shoestring budget...
...employees, as are administered at the CIA, but he doesn't believe that is the only answer. More promising, he says, are smarter computer-security systems that signal senior managers whenever an employee without a true need to know tries to access sensitive case files. "Invariably [double agents] are apt to wander into areas where they don't belong," says Webster. "We may not always recognize them when they belong--but we can when they don't belong." In the old days, he recalls, a librarian would report anyone asking for files that they didn't need to see. Says...
...sorry the reference to DreamWorks wasn't apt; we're also sad that we missed out on a book filled with photos of hunky Russell Crowe...
...painting's recent history is an apt parable of Russia's post-Soviet decade. In the early 1990s, seeking to burnish their image, the country's richest bankers turned to collecting art. "We encouraged them," says Georgi Nikich, a Moscow art critic who participated in Inkombank's acquisition of the Black Square. "Naively, we thought the works would be safer in their hands." Nikich recalls how he heard of this Black Square when he was running one of Moscow's first commercial art fairs. "A woman called up from Samara, claiming to have a Malevich. Of course, we all laughed...