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...That, of course, is bad news for the U.S., but it also means the one-two punch of the financial crisis and possible recession could mete out pain around the globe. "Stabilization of the financial markets is a critical first step," said U.S. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke Wednesday. "But even if they stabilize as we hope they will, broader economic recovery will not happen right away...
...perhaps just as well. "The Suharto era made it impossible for political thought to be rendered in art," says Ahmad Mashadi, head of the Museum of the National University of Singapore Centre for the Arts. In fact, by quitting LEKRA early, Sudjojono escaped the punishment that Suharto was to mete out to leftist artists, and became the most prominent figure of what Kwok calls "the more complex visual terrain in the 1970s...
...days of moral clarity, of easily identifiable good guys and bad guys, are long gone. Ahmed is a Maharia, an Arab--the overwhelming majority of whom take no part in the war. And the men who attacked his village are African rebels who rose up against oppression but also mete it out themselves. The Darfur conflict today bears little resemblance to the one that seized international attention four years ago. The rebels are splintered into as many as 20 competing factions; groups of janjaweed militias, dissatisfied with the rewards promised by the government, are crossing sides to join their former...
...those that first surfaced in the spring of 2004—they nonetheless are of tremendous importance today. Not only do they underscore how atrocious the abuses at Abu Ghraib were, but they reconfirm our reproach of the Department of Defense for its brazen and unapologetic refusal to mete out punishment to those who are truly responsible for these crimes...
...years, it has decreased by as much as 20% in parts of southern Europe and the Mediterranean countries. The combination of diminished supply and increased demand for water is already causing scraps over who gets what. Last week the environment ministers of Spain and Portugal agreed on how to mete out scarce supplies. Portugal said it would use 15% less water from the Douro River, which flows from central Spain into the Atlantic at Porto. But such comity was met with bafflement by some; Portuguese farmers complained that while their Spanish counterparts can profit from the recently completed Alqueva...