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Payne said this year’s festival was able to branch out to a broader base...
...results. They say JROTC exploits minority kids by dangling a carrot of financial security in front of them. According to a 1995 study, paid for by the American Friends Service Committee and called Making Soldiers in the Public Schools, 45% of all cadets who successfully complete JROTC enter a branch of the service. "A 14-year-old is no match for the Department of Defense in sorting out the military's claims," says study co-author Catherine Lutz, an anthropology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Despite the Saudi olive branch, Abdullah was critical of Ariel Sharon. Responsibility for violence in the region, he said, "lies squarely with the person who gave the orders. You cannot break out of this cycle of violence when the Prime Minister of Israel orders planes to drop bombs and invade villages...
...Koizumi's vision was to reorganize the way government is run, muscling up the executive branch and tearing apart the so-called iron triangle of vested interests?the LDP; their financial and vote-getting supporters in agriculture, construction and other industries; and the bureaucrats. Because the LDP has essentially run Japan as a one-party fiefdom since the mid-1950s, real power broking has gone on inside the party, among rival factions and behind closed doors. "The LDP does its real work in the dark," says Taro Kono, a young LDP Lower House member. Under Koizumi's plan, the factions...
...exist, though Nusukan does, a village notorious for its drinking and gambling?not the usual pastimes for Islamic fundamentalists. Either evil has got a lot more stupid, or as an Interpol officer in Indonesia says, 'This was most likely done to keep the police busy'?perhaps by a branch of Indonesia's fractious military intelligence or by an outside provocateur. True or not, the plot failed to materialize and Dec. 4 passed without incident. Note for next time: terrorists usually don't sign their work...