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DECLARED. STATE OF EMERGENCY, in the Maldives; after a violent police crackdown on thousands of demonstrators on Friday; in the capital, Mal?. The administration of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom imposed a curfew following the incident, which was sparked by demands for the release of five political detainees. Gayoom, who has...
Arroyo, who trained as an economist at Georgetown University, declared in her State of the Nation address last month that her priority is to fix the economy "before it finds itself beyond hope of repair and [the Philippines is] doomed to share the fate of failed nations." She has followed...
That's what it's like, both men are learning, to be in a tight presidential contest in the post-9/11 world, where message and stagecraft keep tripping over reality. Last week's terrorism alert, coming on the heels of the 9/11 commission's devastating account of the missed...
It's worth remembering that even as Sadr makes blood-and-fire speeches about fighting to the death in Najaf, his militia in the holy city is pretty much an expeditionary force. Although they have a presence in every Shiite urban community, the Sadrists' organizational base is in the Sadr...
Joe Cinque is dead. It's the leitmotif and only real truth in Helen Garner's true-crime account, Joe Cinque's Consolation (Picador; 328 pages). He was the good-natured son of Italian migrants who moved from Newcastle to Canberra to live with his sexy law- student girlfriend. She...