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...Such ambiguity has community leaders like I Gusti Ngurah Harta worried. A Balinese who is spearheading the predominantly Hindu island's opposition to the legislation, Ngurah Harta says the bill would effectively be the "third Bali bomb," destroying efforts to bring the struggling local economy back to life after two devastating terrorist attacks in the past four years. "It would not only ruin tourism by imposing harsh restrictions on what might be considered unacceptable dress or behavior," he says. "By threatening our culture, arts, dance and creativity, it threatens our way of life and right to exist...
...resignation, it's easy to forget that the country is also ensnared in another conflict?against insurgent communist rebels and Islamic radicals in its remote provinces. On March 27, after weeks of relative calm, an explosion ripped through a Catholic-run cooperative store on the predominantly Muslim southern island of Jolo, killing nine and wounding 20. Authorities said the bomb's construction and its detonation via cell phone pointed to Abu Sayyaf, a roving band of al-Qaeda-linked terrorists and kidnappers operating in the restive south. Two days later a bombing by the New People's Army, which...
...team finished in third place overall behind Rhode Island (URI) and MIT in a peculiarly designed course...
Early season inconsistency bedeviled the Harvard men’s golf team as it opened its spring season in Georgia on March 24-26 at the Jekyll Island Collegiate Invitational. The Crimson finished No. 16 among 24 teams on the Oleander Course, 82 shots behind eventual winner Methodist College. Freshman Michael Shore led Harvard with a No. 53 finish out of the 127 players present, carding rounds of 80, 83, and 72 on the par-72 layout. Shore continued to build on his solid fall, when he finished second on the team in stroke average. “Being...
...strong opening to the spring season for the women’s golf team, which finished second out of twenty-one teams in the Jekyll Island Tournament March 24-26. With decent Georgia weather, the team was able to steal three top ten finishes, with five golfers finishing in the top 25. “It was a little overcast the first two days, other than that it was a lot warmer,” senior captain Jennifer Cronan said. “That’s the reason we went to Georgia, in search of better weather. It makes...