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...began the bizarre reign of Indonesia's fourth President, a man so contradictory that even his closest aides say they cannot understand him half the time. With one foot in the traditional world of Javanese mysticism and the other in the modern world of globalization, Wahid has an internal compass that spins wildly in all directions. He knows the Koran by heart and can also discuss German soccer players with Chancellor Gerhard Schroder. He tells risque jokes to his "friend" Bill Clinton and then pays court to Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi. Of more concern, he is fickle in matters...
...thing the album lacks--other than, of course, a moral compass--is great beats. Eminem is a protege of master rap producer Dr. Dre (who serves as executive producer), but the songs showcase Eminem's lyrics more than Dre's studio skills. Dancing to this album would be like dancing to a Lenny Bruce routine. The CD also gets old quickly: Who wants to hear the same joke told five times...
...America, China had the biggest and best navy in the world. But for an accident of history, Europe would be speaking Chinese today. China discovered the inventions that would pave the way to world mastery for those who put them to use: the printing press, gunpowder and the magnetic compass. Given this economic, military and technical head start, what happened? Europe, not China, became the world's colonizer and mapmaker. Why did China do so badly in the modern...
...Joint weekend field project: Gore and Bush collaborate on a remake of "The Blair Witch Project." Each brings his own compass. Who makes it home? One? Both? Neither...
...Kawakubo's continuing influence on up-and-coming designers reflects her ever-renewing ingenuity, as does her appeal to the younger set of Harvard design students that made up a sizable portion of the spectators. GSD Dean Peter Rowe gave his diligent pupils a lesson on the wide compass of design, proclaiming the necessity of building one community on the foundation of "intermingling design avenues and allied design disciplines." Here he alluded to what was apparently a major point of controversy in the selection of this year's award recipient: does fashion, lately so commercialized and hackneyed, qualify as real...