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...former custodians of the Hotel Flamboyan in Baucau, the picturesque seaside town on East Timor's northeast coast, had a lot to learn about hotel management. Here, during East Timor's darkest days under Indonesian rule, paying guests were treated with disdain by staff dressed in combat fatigues and carrying M-16s and hand grenades. This was an Indonesian military facility that had kept its fa?ade as a hotel to mask its real function as a place to detain, interrogate, torture and sometimes kill Timorese sympathizers of the pro-independence movement...
...this the same country whose navy six weeks ago shelled South Korean patrol boats off the west coast of the peninsula, killing five sailors? It is, say observers, who speculate that the naval battle may have been an accidental clash rather than a deliberate provocation. The country's recent reforms and overtures are, in fact, in keeping with an agenda dating back to the late 1980s, when the Soviet Union unraveled and left its client state, North Korea, without a dependable source of oil and food. The conventional wisdom has been that Kim is too scared of losing control...
This weekend, TrueMajority will take its parade to New York City and then will travel out to the West Coast, stopping in cities along...
...disappointed by how little effort the Bush administration makes to engage with Palestinians, to meet and take seriously their leaders, and to treat Palestinian needs and aspirations on the same level as those of Israelis. Mounir and his family have already canceled their usual summer trip to the East Coast, their affection for the U.S. having shifted to a belief that it's a country "hostile to Arabs, as a people, as a nation." This is what the CFR report terms "attitudinal resistance" to American policy, and its depth and intensity is unlikely to be reversed by slick re-packaging...
...place to start an outing. A rugged trail climbs up craggy Khao Daeng hill to a lofty lookout. It's only half a kilometer, but nearly vertical the entire way. What a view, though: glittering shrimp ponds and lush, green fields skirt conical peaks all the way to the coast. The total seems fewer than 300, but as Khao Sam Roi Yot is such a pleasant break from Bangkok, who's counting...