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...real surprise is that violence didn't break out sooner. Papuans have long seen the mine as a symbol of Jakarta's unequal share of the proceeds from the province's natural resources?and the roots of their resentment go even deeper. The remote province, whose inhabitants are ethnically distinct from the rest of the country, was forcibly taken over by Indonesia in 1963 and remains bedeviled by corruption, secessionist warfare and some of Indonesia's worst rates of HIV/AIDS and poverty. "Years of integration with Indonesia hasn't brought much improvement in the locals' quality of life, while their...
...Jabr's and his forces' growing reputation for brutality comes at a particularly inopportune moment for the Bush Administration, which would like to hand over security responsibilities to those same police units as quickly as possible. That has raised the distinct and disturbing possibility that the U.S. is in fact training and arming one side in a conflict seeming to grow worse by the day. "Militias are the infrastructure of civil war," U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told TIME recently. Khalilzad has been publicly critical of Jabr and warned that the new security ministries under the next, permanent Iraqi government should...
...Oscar committee. No longer ghettoized in Saturday-morning cartoons or serial blockbusters like Ice Age and Shrek, animation now encompasses the content for mighty subindustries, including games, cartoons for television and cable, live-action special-effects films, commercials and - the latest frontier - mobile phones. Asian countries have distinct advantages in the business, in addition to relatively cheap labor. Many governments offer special tax provisions and investment incentives to attract Western studios. In South Korea, animation studios have enjoyed low-interest loans, tax breaks and infrastructure support since 1994, when the government changed animation's status from a service industry...
...real surprise is that violence didn't break out sooner. Papuans have long seen the mine as a symbol of Jakarta's unequal share of the proceeds from the province's natural resources-and the roots of their resentment go even deeper. The remote province, whose inhabitants are ethnically distinct from the rest of the country, was forcibly taken over by Indonesia in 1963 and remains bedeviled by corruption, secessionist warfare and some of Indonesia's worst rates of HIV/AIDS and poverty. "Years of integration with Indonesia hasn't brought much improvement in the locals' quality of life, while their...
...public blogspot.com server and onto CampusTap will give his site exposure and connect his writers to other bloggers. “CampusTap creates a network that makes people more inclined to [blog],” he says. “The space is more useful. There will be a distinct public sphere at Harvard.”However, the site is not yet a “virtual mirror” of the brick-and-mortar Harvard community. In the end, whether the Harvard blogosphere eventually becomes a true campus commonwealth hinges on the contributions of its participants...