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...East Timorese, who speak Indonesian or the local language Tetum, cannot understand, or participate in, political discourse. The authorities have not launched effective job programs to retrain former guerrillas who fought Indonesia; for example, few ex-insurgents have been hired for the police force. Resentment among onetime fighters runs deep. On several occasions, only personal pleas to ex-guerillas from Gusmão, a former rebel leader, prevented violence from erupting...
...Moderates that should be condemning terrorism have a dilemma, too. What keeps otherwise moderate Pakistanis from denouncing extremist leaders such as Osama bin Laden is a deep-seated distaste for both Musharraf and the U.S. The President's call for "enlightened moderation" was well received in Washington, but in Pakistan, where his ham-fisted attempts to stay in power have earned him widespread opprobrium, it was perceived to be a cynical, and successful, bid for support from the West at the expense of his own people. "There has been a failure in our Islamic obligation to condemn people like Fazlullah...
...Victory, the flagship of Lord Nelson when he sailed out through the same channel to win his great victory over the French and Spanish at Trafalgar in 1805. And, as always, the Britons gathered at Portsmouth Harbor last week to watch the naval departure were swept with deep feelings of national pride and a sense of foreboding about an uncertain future. The crowd was largely silent at first, but the cheers began as the aircraft carriers Invincible and Hermes moved past. The spectators, some of whom had been weeping only moments before, shouted encouragement across the water, waved Union Jacks...
...before my parents discovered exactly what the cafeteria was serving us, I would eat pizza for lunch every day. Except it wasn’t the slim, New York style pizza my dad had brought me up on (he hails from Brooklyn). And it wasn’t the deep-dish kind that Chicago-folks swear by. No—it was what I would describe as reconstituted space pizza, in a personal-sized tin trays. But it was pizza. And I was an easily pleased second grader, who didn’t think past the fact that...
...inhaled my half, and then started in on my date’s. I can’t say I am a frequenter of ’Noch’s, but I have had my days (and nights) when nothing satisfies me like a square of tomato-basil deep-dish pizza...