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...your story on Wall Street [Nov. 9]: Professionals who build bridges, buildings and even houses must be licensed, to encourage adherence to stringent technical, legal and ethical standards. Ignoring the rules can result in losing one's job. Why? Because if these things are constructed poorly, people will get hurt. Since Wall Street is in the business of "engineering" markets in order to make the greatest possible amount of money, why shouldn't they be licensed and held to similar standards? Mark Revis, MORENO VALLEY, CALIF...
...really have to show up on Wall Street with pitchforks and torches before its denizens get that we've had it with their lying, thieving games? Wayne Laepple, NORTHUMBERLAND...
Just don't expect him to be wrapped up in awards talk. Haneke takes a very pragmatic view of his newfound popularity. "Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions," he says. "You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film." But success and money is unlikely to change his style. Throughout his career, Haneke hasn't attracted controversy so much as courted it and if his films are looked upon as bleak diatribes on the human condition, frankly...
...have allowed the scheme's creators to blaze a trail. First, a decades-long separatist insurgency by the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) saved the province from the logging frenzy seen across the rest of Sumatra. "If you went into the forest back then there was a chance you'd get shot," says Matthew Linkie, an FFI technical manager based in the province's capital Banda Aceh. (See "COP15: Climate-Change Conference...
...camp was set up a year ago. Conditions are basic. The rangers live in tents near a shallow river flowing past overgrown farmland abandoned during the conflict but now slowly being recultivated by returning locals. Insects shriek from the thick jungle beyond. The rangers have discovered that they can get a weak signal - just enough to send text messages to family or friends - if they strap their cell phones to lengths of bamboo driven into the ground at certain points around the camp. So outside every tent there are phones on sticks, like tribal totems...