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...student leader - a trip made possible through a program initiated by Suharto, Sukarno's successor. The streets were quiet and I asked the driver why. He replied in a neutral voice that Sukarno had just passed away. After the chaos and isolationism of the Sukarno years, my student movement had supported Suharto's vision of stability and economic growth. Nevertheless, I felt a sad sense of passage - and anticlimax - at Sukarno's death. Nobody talked about it, because he had disappeared from public view. Nobody knew where he was; it was not even clear where he had died...
...country: vigilante gangs run rampant in the countryside, while ethnic groups long marginalized under the monarchy have taken to armed uprising, especially in the southern lowlands of the Tarai where over 40% of Nepal's population lives. A cocktail of anarchist elements, militant factions and a growing separatist movement hold sway there and prove a daunting challenge with elections coming in little more than two months. "What happened in Kenya could happen here," says Jayaraj Acharya, a former Nepalese ambassador to the U.N., speaking of the ongoing ethnic conflict in the African nation triggered by disputed elections, which has claimed...
...early to fully gauge what impact John Edwards' departure will have on the Democratic race. His voters may well favor Clinton over Obama. But his superdelegates are already joining the Obama movement. Even before the former North Carolina Senator dropped out of the race on Jan. 30, at least two of his congressional backers had shifted their endorsements to Obama, and more are expected to follow...
...labor movement was born. The issue wasn't today's relatively abstruse one of payments for DVDS or Internet downloads; it was simply getting paid. Tom Dreesen, a comedian and former Teamster from Chicago who became a spokesman for the comics, pleaded with Shore to give them at least a token amount. "I told Mitzi, 'You pay the waiters, you pay the waitresses, you pay the guy who cleans the toilets. Why don't you at least pay the comedians?'" says Dreesen. Many of the struggling kids who were helping her club thrive, he pointed out, couldn't even afford...
...could also benefit from the EU’s human rights standards. Serbia’s record for treatment of the mentally ill is atrocious, and Kosovo has become an epicenter of sex slavery. EU member states are also party to the Schengen Agreement, which allows for the free movement of people. If Serbia and Kosovo enter into the agreement, Serbs could still journey to their holy sites in Kosovo, and Kosovars could still visit relatives in Serbia—moving more freely even than they can today.The most important lesson that the Balkans can learn from the EU, however...