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...this sleepy village of narrow lanes and rattan-and-straw shacks. But despite its peaceful air, Tenggulun could reasonably be described as ground zero for militant Islam in Indonesia. Al-Islam school was founded in the early 1990s by two brothers of the three convicted bombers. Yet the bitter radicalism of Zakaria, together with the drawings of automatic rifles and slogans calling for jihad and martyrdom in students' essays pasted to one of the school's walls, is at odds with the beliefs and practices of the roughly 200 million Muslims in Indonesia. Since Arabic traders began to spread Islam...
...part, Bush portrays himself as not the perpetrator but the victim of inflexibility. "Washington is a much more bitter, ugly place, dominated by special interests, than I ever envisioned," he tells TIME. "If you sign on to this idea, you will then betray this cause." Bush says he will keep trying to reach out to the other side, but he is not about to change his ways. "I'm going to make hard decisions. Some don't like that. But my job is to solve problems, not pass them...
...life, obviously. There's a lot of ups and downs. There's a lot of high drama and not much calm so far. But I've enjoyed doing it, to the point where I'd like to do it again. I've learned that Washington is a much more bitter, ugly place, dominated by special interests, than I ever envisioned. I was surprised. When I was the Governor of Texas, I had a good working relationship with the leaders from both parties. We would say, "Let's get things done for Texas" and get things done...
...death might have on Kim Jong Il. According to a memoir by a former sushi chef in the Dear Leader's household, Kim fell into a severe depression while Ko was being treated in France for cancer a decade ago. As the international community has learned through bitter experience, dealing with Kim when he's on an even keel is hard enough...
...says, "that I am still alive." He does stretching exercises along with a radio broadcast, then eats breakfast: whole-grain rice and miso soup with vegetables. He puts in two hours of picking weeds in his 1,000-sq.-ft. field, whose crops are goya--a variety of bitter gourd--a reddish-purple sweet potato called imo, and okra. A fellow has to make a living, so Toguchi buys rice and meat with the profits from his produce...