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...than just the defender of the flag. It fought the Japanese during World War II and the Dutch during the battle for independence, and soon established a nation-building role for itself as the only institution capable of holding the fractious archipelago together. Over the years, various leaders have dealt with the army differently?but always using the TNI as a means of staying in power. Sukarno, Megawati's father, played it off against the communists and Muslims. Suharto exploited it to enrich his family and cronies. After he fell, in keeping with the more liberal political winds prevailing...
Sabet downplays the damage that marijuana prohibition causes to society. In the U.S. last year, approximately 734,000 people were arrested for marijuana offenses. That is 734,000 people who dealt with the humiliation, anguish and monetary damage that entails being handcuffed, fingerprinted, forced to appear before a judge, making bail and serving probation. Would we tolerate this treatment for the use of alcohol or cigarettes...
...Last year, members of the German military were brought to trial and later convicted on smuggling charges, stemming from more than 10,000 counts of illegally handling explosives and 7,000 gun law violations. "Germany has strict laws, but it doesn't really matter," says Peters. "They haven't dealt with the rush of guns coming in from Eastern countries, over borders that are becoming less restrictive every...
...calm, quiet man with a reputation for listening, Gregory desperately wants to inspire even dismayed U.S. Catholics to keep the faith, and knows that rebuilding a flock requires a rebuilding of trust. He knows this because he has dealt with this problem before: in his own diocese of Belleville, Illinois, he cracked down on priests found guilty of sex abuse, eventually ousting 12 of them in the 1990s. That success has made him enormously popular with church leaders and laity alike...
...week the 100th death-row inmate found to be wrongfully convicted since capital punishment was restored in 1977 was freed from an Arizona prison. And a blue-ribbon report due out this week in Illinois is likely to cast more doubt on the fairness with which capital punishment is dealt out. --By Viveca Novak