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...story illustrates much about the man Indonesians overwhelmingly chose to lead them: his undoubted intellectual heft?Yudhoyono's personal library contains 13,000 volumes?and a discipline that allowed him to finish and defend a doctoral thesis in the middle of a presidential campaign. Those were qualities Yudhoyono downplayed on the stump, where he touted a decisiveness honed through a 29-year military career. Unlike the incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri, Yudhoyono told voters, he wouldn't shy from tough decisions to tackle the country's social and economic woes...
...aware of what Tribe was doing when I first read his book,” Abraham told The Standard. “But I chose not to do anything at the time. I’ve never confronted him—and I was wrong in not following it up. I should have done something about...
...things like welfare payments to immigrants. "We succeeded in crystallizing the idea that we should not have a multiethnic society but a German society," he says. That troubling pitch attracted young, disaffected voters who have come of age during the post-reunification slump. Some 20% of first-time voters chose the NPD, according to Hajo Funke, an expert on right-wing extremism at the Free University of Berlin. "The NPD conceals its ideology by presenting itself as socially engaged," Funke says. "But it is definitely a neo-Nazi party." The NPD is reviled in Germany. When the party's Saxony...
...their applications, all students are asked why they chose to apply to a particular seminar, but professors can add their own questions...
...daily life of Iraqis during the first Gulf War and its aftermath; of pneumonia linked to treatment for leukemia; in Beirut. She was wryly resigned to Saddam Hussein's violent regime, but also critical of the U.S. for bombing her native city and killing civilians. Fearing persecution, she chose to live in exile in Beirut after her book was published...