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...demonstrated a metal bouncing fruit basket that falls and rises as fruit is added or removed from...
...Berlin-based watchdog Transparency International, Indonesia ranked as the world's 12th most corrupt country, worse than economic basket cases such as Sierra Leone, Papua New Guinea and the Congo. Indonesia's legal system gets particularly low marks. In an IMF-sponsored report, a panel of Indonesian lawyers recently studied 500 bankruptcy cases in the country since 1998 and determined that about 30% of all verdicts were incorrect, either because judges misunderstood the law or disregarded it. Foreign bankers and investors often have trouble enforcing contracts in Indonesian courts. In one case, a court last year nullified a $180 million...
...wants, or Fidelity's Abigail Johnson, whose family firm controls the destiny of nearly $900 billion of mutual-fund money. But Kim Jong Il, the Dear Leader of North Korea, has power too--nuclear-weapons programs do that for you--despite the fact that his nation is an economic basket case. Stalin asked mockingly about the Pope, "How many divisions does he have?" Yet few would doubt that Pope John Paul II has changed countless lives. So, sadly, has Osama bin Laden, even though he is holed up in a remote village somewhere in the Hindu Kush with even fewer...
...appetite for movies--and movie stars--can be expected to be the butt of jokes. But North Korea's Dear Leader is no laughing matter. Since his accession to power on the death of his father Kim Il Sung, in 1994, Kim Jong Il has shown that an economic basket case of a state, which at times has been unable to feed its people, and which is brutally authoritarian, can still manage to keep the great powers off balance--so long as it has, or plausibly threatens to have, nuclear weapons. U.S. officials, together with those of South Korea, Japan...
...that may be a political death sentence for Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. The generation of PLO leaders that embarked on the Oslo process had been derided by militants for putting all of its eggs in the basket of American goodwill, and Hamas crowed on Thursday that Bush's statements had vindicated its strategy of violence by proving that the path of negotiations pursued by Arafat and the PA was a dead end for Palestinian aspirations. And in light of the President's statement, it will be hard for PA leaders to sustain a belief among Palestinians...