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...collapsed in 1998, the Aceh conflict is viewed as one indicator of just how much the TNI has changed?or, more often, hasn't. For 32 years, the Indonesian armed forces propped up Suharto's hard-line rule with killings, torture and kidnappings, while senior officers grew rich from corrupt business deals and helped thwart political reform. By 1998, no institution was as popularly despised as the 297,000-strong military?or in more desperate need of an overhaul...
Suddenly everyone wants to reform the Palestinian Authority. But long before George Bush and Ariel Sharon were pressing to democratize the PA, the Palestinians themselves were trying to reform the corrupt, authoritarian government run as a personal fiefdom by Yasser Arafat. It was many of those very advocates for good, transparent governance who began the current intifada, which close observers of Palestinian politics interpreted at its outset as a challenge to the politics-as-usual of Arafat and his inner circle. And those advocates have ideas that are profoundly different from Sharon's about what democratizing the PA would entail...
...With so much advice swirling around - and so much of it cooked, corrupt or just plain bad - even the companies themselves get to play oracle. For weeks, Wall Street has been a chastened bettor, placing few bets and admitting its ignorance. Then Cisco announced after the bell Tuesday that the year in tech looked pretty good - and Wednesday the casino was jumping again with a furious rally that added 122 points to the NASDAQ and 305 points to the Dow, the biggest daily gains of 2002. Nobody even complained about Cisco's obvious conflict of interest as a company that...
...families of Palestinian suicide bombers instead of spending it to feed and house long-suffering Iraqis. Most of them despair. But they celebrate his birthday nonetheless. Karim, 36, who asked that I give him a pseudonym, runs a car-alarm business: the nouveau riche at the top of this corrupt society can easily afford his $45 systems to protect their new Nissans and Protons. But Karim cannot feed his family of four on his meager monthly food ration. His earnings at the shop let him buy a little meat, a bit of chicken, to supplement the basics. When...
...Terror, Nepal's 10,000 Maoist guerrillas have decided, is the key to power. When they first launched their revolt six years ago, the rebels took care to elicit public support with popular campaigns against corrupt officials, alcoholism, drug use and chauvinism. Dismissed by the outside world as poorly armed curios from another time, their message that the elected government had succeeded only in lining its own pockets since the end of absolute monarchy in 1990 resonated in the Himalayan hills. But lately, the "people's rebels" have embarked on an altogether bloodier course, inspired?according to a former rebel...