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...officers hold key posts in her Cabinet. Because she stresses the country's unity above all else (she has spoken of "the need for a force to protect our motherland from breaking up"), Megawati has placed on the back burner anything that might upset the TNI, the nation's guardian?like extracting it from politics and business and making it adhere strictly to human rights. "Reform is not solely the TNI's responsibility," says military analyst Kusnanto Anggoro. "Civilians, too, must decide what kind of changes it should undergo. The military says, 'OK, we'll obey your rules...
Beautiful story of how a young girl named Teelana sought help for her beleaguered village and ended up becoming the Sorceress, the guardian of Castle Grayskull...
...French playwright Pierre Marivaux. As a princess struggling to win the heart of a prince (Jay Rodan) while restoring the rule of her kingdom to its rightful heir, Mira dons a cunning and passionate persona that manages to crack the stoic visages of the prince’s rationalist guardian (Ben Kingsley) and his withdrawn sister (Fiona Shaw). “I offer them the idea of love,” explains Mira. “[All the characters] have resolved themselves to live lives without love, completely secluded as hermits on this philosophical and scientific hideaway...
...quotas for its member states to manipulate the market and keep oil revenues as high as possible. Because it takes only one major oil producer breaking ranks and increasing output to send prices plunging, the world market is very sensitive to the political situation in oil producing states. The guardian of the cartel’s well being is Saudi Arabia, a state the U.S. inexplicably calls an ally, whose ruling family has chosen not to own up to the country’s complicity in promoting global terrorism. Owing to its significant spare capacity, Saudi Arabia can endure prolongs...
Yuna is the requisite romantic lead. We first see her swooning beautifully in the doorway of the Chamber of Trials. Dewy with sweat, she collapses into the arms of a burly guardian, exalting breathily: “I’ve done it! I’ve become a summoner!” Sadly, the heroes of Final Fantasy seem to grow more androgynous, be they taciturn, long-lashed fighters or spunky, spikey-haired pickpockets. Role-playing games have a girl-friendly reputation, so it helps to have characters both genders can identify with. (Heaven forbid, of course, a female...