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...epicenter is the Treaty of Waitangi, a 150-word document as obscure as it is brief. Since the 1980s, when a tribunal was set up to hear Maori claims for redress, successive governments have invested the treaty with near-constitutional mystique. So far, of a thousand claims registered, only a quarter have been heard. The claims process has given rise to a wealthy Maori elite of lawyers, politicians and cultural consultants. Some have grown adept, Brash says, at interpreting the document to suit their own purposes. "This generation of New Zealanders recognized that there were wrongs in the past," says...
...Land prompted plans for a punitive police expedition, he lobbied the Federal Government to send him as peace broker. Despite officials' fears that he'd be killed - and a request, which he refused, to collect skulls while there - Thomson set off in 1935 to calm tensions and, he hoped, document for policymakers the needs and culture of a people about whom almost nothing was known: "I was to show them that a European was prepared to trust them...
...this edition Peterson has added a jewel - 80 extra images from Thomson's trove of 10,500 negatives from Arnhem Land and Cape York. (These, along with 5,700 artefacts and 4,500 pages of field notes, form a priceless ethnographic collection at Museum Victoria.) They document the vanished world of a self-sufficient and proud nomadic society: a solemn young widow receiving a ceremonial staff topped with a bundle of string and her husband's finger bone; hunters gliding stealthily on canoes through the giant Arafura Swamp. Particularly powerful are the portraits, so different from the era's stiff...
...Just five years ago, they were junior investment bankers at the Blackstone Group and Goldman Sachs, one in New York City, the other in London. During one particularly long night of proofreading PowerPoint slides and commiserating by phone about finding yet another error courtesy of their companies' in-house document service, they had an epiphany. They would find a better way of doing that work. This was at the height of the dotcom boom, and everyone they knew was trying to figure out a way to Silicon Valley. These two had a different idea. They would go to India...
...source tells TIME that the Senate Intelligence Committee, looking for answers, is ready to renew a request for the summary prepared for the President of an October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)--the consensus of intelligence agencies--on Iraq. The White House previously denied such a request, calling the document privileged. But a source familiar with the situation tells TIME that having voted to expand its inquiry to cover whether the White House hyped Iraq's WMD capabilities, the panel is poised "to again pursue those types of briefing materials...