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The story of Morrison's buried treasure - and the reasons why he can't get it out of the ground - says a lot about the current state of Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country. On one level, it is actually a good-news tale of the vibrancy of...
This democratic flowering has a downside: it has sparked seemingly endless turf warfare between Jakarta and the country's provincial and local governments. The sparring often results in conflicting regulations, uncertain lines of authority and onerous tax burdens. Contributing to this hostile environment are corruption, a capricious legal system and...
Indonesians these days are definitely making themselves heard, even in the thatch-hut hamlets surrounding the Archipelago mine. Some in the community, like village headman Marten Katiandagho, believe that preserving the environment is all well and good, but that the area also badly needs the jobs and the tax dollars...
Your "Five Faces of Barack Obama" omitted the face I consider most salient: the wimp. Having backed down on the things he should have stood up for - peace, separation of church and state, the environment - he is now a Republican lite, like John Kerry was. That's not change I...
Given that track record, Gates says he had little choice. "It is my judgment that in the time remaining to us, we cannot complete a competition that would be viewed as fair and competitive in this highly charged environment," Gates told the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday. "I believe that...