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...Kids have so many choices that when they buy something, it has to hit them on numerous levels," says Ron Shapiro, co-president of Atlantic Records, P.O.D.'s distributor. "It's about the music and the message." A typical P.O.D. lyric is pointed but tries to avoid religious cliche: "Commit my life to rebirth, well respected, 'cause that's my word/I'm sure you heard, about a new sound going around...
...businesses, including Jakarta department stores, Bali resorts and massive land holdings nationwide, worth an estimated $3 billion?remains intact. And most importantly, say critics, the military has paid little more than lip service to improving its human rights record. In conflict zones like Aceh, its troops continue to commit atrocities at a rate humanitarian groups can barely track...
...military says that atrocities are an exception, not the rule. "If I have a hundred soldiers in the field, two or three might commit abuses," says army spokesman Brigadier General Ratyono. "It's common. It's normal. But there is never any instruction to commit them." This distinction?let's call it the "few bad apples" defense?is depressingly familiar to rights activists. "Abuses by the military are too widespread for it to be just a question of individuals," says Aris Santoso, a military analyst with a Jakarta think tank. "The institution itself must take the blame." Four middle-ranking...
...April 26, the victim said Wan asked their proctor to check the laptop on the victim’s desk, because he believed the victim had faked the theft of his own laptop to commit insurance fraud, even though the victim had not yet filed for insurance money...
...suspect" evidence against Littleton and lays the groundwork for his cross-examination. While Littleton cannot be charged, audio and videotape evidence that he confessed to the murder to his ex-wife could help Skakel's case. "We are looking to introduce evidence that not only did Michael Skakel not commit the crime, but someone else did," says Sherman. The jury will return on Monday...