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...first,” Sager said. “That’s kind of been the story for us all year—we’re a second-half team.” The Crimson looks to improve on this weakness before its next matchup against Rhode Island on Wednesday. Clark believes the team’s senior class can help lead Harvard to victory throughout the rest of the season. “We’ve got a lot of great seniors who are hoping to make it a special season, and I think they...
...storm surge hasn't started yet, but Galveston is starting to take on water. I worked on the island as a reporter for the Galveston County Daily News in the mid-1990s, and I recognize a lot of the places they're showing on TV. It's hard to believe how fast the water is rising. The waves already have started crashing over the seawall. They closed it a few minutes...
Dave Morrison sits on top of an estimated $800 million in gold but can't get his hands on any of it. The 42-year-old Australian engineer went to the tropical island of Sulawesi in Indonesia's east five years ago to open a gold mine on a palm-studded hillock outside the provincial capital, Manado. He has yet to overturn one shovel of ore. A half-built processing plant sits idly alongside a dirt track. Among the only signs of activity to be spotted are in the picturesque bay nearby, where fishermen paddle wooden canoes. The mine...
...Channeling Chávez There are limits to what any elected President can accomplish in the diverse and far-flung island nation. To many Indonesians, the wrangling over economic policy is a sign of a healthy democracy. Sarundajang, the North Sulawesi governor, points out that the original contract allowing Archipelago to dig for gold in his province was signed in 1986, during the Suharto years, when citizens' wishes were disregarded. The struggle against the mine, he contends, is a struggle to correct the sins of the past. By opposing the mine, he says he wants to "give a salute...
...sully his rule. In the resource-rich territory of Aceh, S.B.Y. spearheaded a historic accord that has brought peace to a former civil-war battleground. Despite the fact that Indonesia gave birth to Jemaah Islamiah, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist movement that twice targeted tourists on the resort island of Bali, the Indonesian government has waged one of the world's most successful wars on terror, with scores of militants arrested and terrorist cells infiltrated as part of S.B.Y.'s promise to rout Islamic extremism. At the same time, government-funded moderate Muslim operatives have reached out to youngsters...