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...hamlet displays telltale scars: razed shops and markets and blackened, gutted houses. Villages still standing are eerily deserted. The town of Idi Rayeuk, once home to 15,000, was briefly occupied by GAM fighters in early March. Security forces moved in hours later, and now it is a charred ghost town presided over by Brimob, the Police Mobile Brigade under the command of the national police force? including some of the same troops who led the carnage in East Timor. The situation is so bad in Aceh that ExxonMobil, whose local plant produces one-third of the country...
...Nixon's real hero, whom he quoted on that last day in the White House, was Teddy Roosevelt. We should be grateful that the peacemaking statesman in Nixon triumphed over the ghost of TR, who said: "No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumph of war." Presidents are as complex as the rest...
...games are just another way of life” 7) “I think it’s time I found a new religion” 8) “Girl, I wanna waller in the back of my Impala” 9) “Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue” 10) “She only comes when she’s on top” 11) “In the end we shall achieve in time / The thing they call divine?...
...There was never more than a ghost of a chance even under the Clinton Administration that the agreement would be ratified by a skeptical Senate, so some feel that Bush's forthright stance has brought a hidden chasm out in the open. French Environment Minister Voynet suggests that the U.S. decision could have a catalyzing effect. "The reaction has been critical throughout the world," says Voynet. "Even countries that have traditionally and openly been close to the U.S. position, like Canada and Australia, haven't followed its lead. Following the failure of the Hague conference we had some doubts about...
...amiable ghost of super-agent Swifty Lazar will be beaming down behind his oversize glasses as Los Angeles magazine hosts its benefit event in aid of the charity Children Uniting Nations. That is because the party is being held at the famous Hollywood Spago, where Swifty ruled supreme on Oscar night for so many years. Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is closing this branch of his restaurant empire to focus on the newer Beverly Hills branch, and this bash will be the last major event to be held there...