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...leaders insist the TNI is changing. It has introduced 140 hours of instruction in law and human rights at its army-officer academy, while soldiers dispatched to Aceh receive an extra three or four months' training to hone their military skills. One exercise gives them four seconds to decide whether they are facing an armed rebel or an innocent civilian?a distinction which, as Aceh's casualty figures suggest, has mattered little in the past. More than a thousand civilians perished in the conflict last year; this year's death toll looks set to surpass that. Combat troops have also...
...21st) and Government (ranked 36th). As with the CUE Guide, students can also pick and choose what criteria they care most about. Concerned most with tutorial size? You can focus on that part of the rankings. Interested in a concentration’s teachers? The rankings allow you to hone in on students’ evaluations of professors...
...handedness and risk being labeled as “different,” so she learned to play with her right hand. By the time she reached high school, she had become serious about the school, she had become serious about the sport, attending camps throughout the summer to hone her skills. Once she got to Ellington (Conn.) High School, she established herself as a dominant scorer, netting 2,200 points over a stellar career...
...your House comrades when you can go after that annoying sniveler who’s right above you in the rankings? Extra points for orchestrating a particularly clever demise. Arsenic in General Wong’s? A quick push down the Science Center stairs? Harvard would be helping us hone that killer instinct...
...think his time in Washington allowed him to get a much broader perspective outside of the academic community and also really hone his administrative skills,” Kosofsky says...