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...mission to assess the state of the Indonesian judiciary. He told reporters that what he saw had been even more disappointing than his already dismal expectations. For the duration of his 32-year reign, former President Suharto prevented the growth of an independent judiciary and kneecapped the concept of aggressive prosecution. Though Bapak is several years removed from power, many believe the rich and powerful still benefit from a favorably disposed judiciary. And the military's influence, far from shrinking, is being shored up. Which is not to say the trials won't deliver some convictions. Indonesia is aware...
Although those foreign policy questions are the subjects of as much controversy in Britain as they are in America, even many of Blair’s fiercest opponents nonetheless believe, whole-hear tedly, in the concept of special obligations between their country and the U.S. As with so much of the reproach of U.S. foreign policy I have heard on the ground—whether it comes from members of Parliament, taxi drivers or strangers in a pub—even the most bitter critics rest their vitriol on a foundation of deep respect and sympathy for America. They...
...concept of pre-emptive strikes is very scary. If the U.S. says it will attack first, what would stop others from doing the same to us? This could result in a downward spiral to death and destruction. This Bush doctrine, like some of his others (withdrawing from the ABM Treaty, development of a space-based missile-defense shield), will make the world not a safer place but a more dangerous one. DAVID ATWOOD Houston...
...presence of prostitution in St. Petersburg was a familiar concept to me when I first arrived here to study Russian for the summer. The St. Petersburg prostitutes grace the pages of many Russian writers’ greatest works. In the 19th century, Nikolai Gogol wrote about an enticingly innocent prostitute that patrolled Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg’s main thoroughfare. Dostoevsky presented his own romantic version of the St. Petersburg prostitute in Sonya Semyonovna, the teenage prostitute who saves the soul of Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. More recently, I remember reading a statistic in high school that...
Sibling rivalry is a concept with which many of us are all too familiar. Sibling harmony is harder to fathom and, for some in the tennis world, difficult to accept. VENUS and SERENA WILLIAMS faced each other last week at Wimbledon, the third time they have met in a Grand-Slam final this year. The formidable sister act has some rivals griping that their matches are not competitive enough. "The way they play in other matches--they really don't play that way against each other," says Jennifer Capriati. But the two did not seem to be holding back when...