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...refugees' anger is the fear that Lapindo will walk away from its promises. Last September, PT Energi Mega Persada, a company controlling 50% of the Lapindo drilling project and connected to Bakrie, the Indonesian Cabinet minister, attempted to unload Lapindo for $2 to a company based on the island of Jersey but owned by Bakrie's family conglomerate. When Indonesian financial regulators blocked that sale, Energi Mega tried to sell half the beleaguered Lapindo to the Freehold Group, registered in the British Virgin Islands. That deal also collapsed amid controversy. The attempted corporate reshuffling raised fears among many that Lapindo...
...variety of instruments. After a hour of jamming, they break for a catered Brazilian dinner. Over black beans and rice, Mashael A. Fakhro ’11 talks about adjusting to Cambridge after leaving her home in Bahrain (for those who don’t know, Bahrain is an island in the Persian Gulf). “I didn’t need to explain myself so much over there,” Fakhro says. Here at Harvard, however, she finds herself fielding questions about her Arab heritage and the location (or existence) of her country.Despite being the lone Bahraini...
...standing-room only crowd of over 1,400 contributors gathered in Boston yesterday to hear Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton speak with the Rhode Island primary just eight days away. With event tickets costing $25 for students—half the price of general admission—Clinton highlighted her appreciation for the student support. “You deserve to have a president who is not just thinking about the next election but the next generation,” she said. Harvard Students for Hillary brought 14 volunteers to the event. “Our group made...
...Director Travis's early claim to fame was the 2004 Omagh, a retelling of the massacre of 29 civilians in a Northern Island town a decade ago. That TV film's script was co-written by Paul Greengrass, and Travis has borrowed some of the jittery camerabatics that Greengrass applied as director to of United 93and the last two episodes of the Jason Bourne saga. You can easily spot Travis's attempt at docudrama bona fides from the gritty cinematography. All the 50-plus mid-level stars - Quaid, Hurt, Weaver, Bruce McGill - are shot (I mean photographed) so unflatteringly that...
...Countries aren't the only geographical entities that try to secede, of course. Staten Island has made noises over the years about quitting New York City, an idea generally scuttled when residents realized that a lot of Manhattanites didn't know it was part of the club to begin with, and at least a few were confusing it with the little triangular island also named Staten at the southernmost tail of Argentina - which would at least explain why the ferry takes so long. Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley have similarly talked of seceding from greater Los Angeles...