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...Jakarta. The expiration of the year-old state of emergency comes as the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (G.A.M.) negotiate a peace deal in the wake of the Dec. 26 tsunami, which killed more than 100,000 Acehnese. Although 38,000 government troops will remain on the ground, Bivitri Susanti, executive director of the Centre for Indonesian Law and Policy Studies, called the move "a very significant step for the reconstruction process...
...ready for the summer and look toward next year, the council is poised to have an even more successful fall. The comprehensive student report that has been compiled on the Curricular Review will allow us to hit the ground running at the start of the coming semester and get students engaged in deciding the future of their school. A team of representatives will be working over the summer to continue our progress in our advocacy efforts and to begin planning for several campus-wide events for when we return in September...
...terrorist? Amerine asks. Someone who flies planes into buildings, says a cadet. The Japanese did basically that, says Amerine. Someone who kills civilians, says another. The U.S. did that in Dresden, Amerine replies. He is the tireless devil's advocate, forcing cadets into deeper analysis and dense moral ground...
...going on." In reports about Iraq, the U.S. "occupation army" has become simply the "American military." In coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, however, a recent report on the Israeli-constructed wall separating the two sides included extended footage of an Israeli soldier pinning a Palestinian to the ground with his boot. The repetitive broadcasting of such images is one of the reasons that U.S. critics charge al-Jazeera with anti- Western bias...
...fourth of nearly a dozen visits to West Point reporting this week's TIME cover story I find myself on The Plain, the parade ground that, the joke says, is "the most heavily mock-defended acre in the world." The occasion of the day is the pending retirement of several of West Point's highest officers, the heads of History and Social Sciences, the dean of Academics, and cadets are performing one of the tasks they hate most: parading across the field, a thousand of them in their stiffest formal grays, plumes whipping in the heavy wind...