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...country where many people suffered horrifically under Indonesian rule, leaving scarred psyches, minor conflicts can easily escalate into major battles. In the first half of 2006, gangs of former guerrillas fought with one another and the authorities across Dili. The conflict spiraled, leaving entire areas of the city burned to the ground, and tens of thousands of East Timorese in temporary shelters...
...take this worst possible course? The only plausible answer is so as to avoid the short-term political cost of a run-down of the bank, a major employer in the northeast of England, which is one of the Labour Party's heartlands. But the longer-term political cost to the government is likely to be very severe. Governments, like financial centers, need to be jealous of their reputation. The U.K.'s reputation as a financial center is sufficiently soundly based for it to recover from the blow inflicted by the Northern Rock affair. Whether the government's reputation...
...It’s clear that the major policy issues facing the legal and political system all involve risks. The goal is to think about how to improve the legal system’s reactions to risk,” he said...
...change was slow and gradual,” Hyman, the provost, writes in an e-mailed statement. “Over time a number of faculty and members of the administration recognized that major aspects of HMI’s effort were moving away from the University’s core mission...
...Sadr set for his militia's unilateral cease-fire is about to lapse. "There has been some communication back and forth that appears to indicate that it will continue," said Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. U.S. officials say the cease-fire was a major factor in lowering violence across Iraq, where an ongoing surge of U.S. forces is now focused primarily on fighting Sunni extremists. "I would say it probably caused us about a 15 or 20% decrease in attack levels," said Gen. Raymond Odierno, the ground commander for U.S. troops in Iraq...