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Stills has been a political activist throughout his forty-year career. He appeared with Crosby, Stills & Nash bandmates David Crosby and Graham Nash at the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, and has helped raise money for a wide range of causes, such as Miami hurricane relief...
...Corruption Indonesia ranks as the world's 12th most corrupt country, according to Transparency International, a Berlin-based watchdog. The government, say critics, has failed to tackle entrenched graft...
...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...
...inter-act musical choices, selected by Jim S. Patton ’04, are inspired: popular wartime radio pieces such as Irving Berlin war songs and Marx Brothers routines complement the action and make the intermission an interesting part of the play in its own right...
...more pragmatic and therefore electable. He has helped modernize German thinking on the use of force: without his personal intervention, the Bundestag would have voted to support neither NATO action against Serbia in 1999 nor the deployment of German troops to Afghanistan two years later. And his speech at Berlin's Humboldt University four years ago triggered a major debate on how closely the countries of the European Union should be integrated...