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...coronation of Ona might appear comic, but it is a sinister scene in the tragedy that looms over the beautiful but ravaged island. For more than 14 years, Ona and his band of rebels in the Bougainville Revolutionary Army have occupied a no-go zone around the vast Panguna copper mine. The villagers who fall inside his territory are denied essential services, and face a fragile security situation. Blundering by corporate jet into this dysfunctional society came an eccentric Australian businessman. His arrival brought hollow promises of multi-million-dollar business deals and benign health programs, and coincided with Musingku...
...island traces its troubles to protests in 1989 against Bougainville Copper Limited's mine. A local landowner, Ona led others in demands for compensation and tighter environmental controls. The P.N.G. military was brought in to suppress the revolt, and the conflict evolved into a secessionist rebellion that eventually claimed the lives of between 12,000 and 15,000 people, according to the U.N. While other elements of the original independence fighters signed a ceasefire in 1998, Ona has vowed to occupy the mine and surrounding regions until Bougainville is granted independence...
Adorn that Douglas fir with one of smithandhawken.com's copper watering-can ornaments, $10. The site will also deliver the Emperor's Head-- a $129 cast-stone planter, that...
...bills its fare as “exotic Mediterranean,” and the décor of its two rooms seems to back that claim. Hand-wrought copper tables from Bosnia stand a comfortable distance apart in the dining room, where musicians of similar provenance perform from 10 p.m. on each Saturday and every other Thursday. (We unfortunately stopped by on a band-less night, although the music piped in over the sound system made digestion easy enough...
...BOOK: Blinking with Fists, released Oct. 1 THE BUZZ: Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky's publisher is pushing the collection by this alt rocker, who packed rage and rhythm into his lyrics for the Smashing Pumpkins CRINGEWORTHY VERSE: Atwixt the twine and flowers divine/ Devise the deign in this copper wane THE AUDIENCE: Art-school dropouts...