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...call him, won nearly 40% of the vote, twice that of his nearest challenger. But he insists he was a reluctant candidate. "Being a governor is like being in prison-I will lose my freedom," he recently told reporters. His reluctance is understandable: 4 million Acehnese now pin their hopes on Irwandi Yusuf as he starts one of the toughest jobs in Indonesia...
...there was Ed Begley Jr. and a bunch of guys who looked like Kenny Rogers. An alarmingly large number of scientists from Austria received awards. Apparently the people who gave the world Mozart and World War I are really good at making wireless camera lens controls. We tried to pin them down as part of some kind of vast, Austro-techie conspiracy, but, like the rest of the contented crowd at this Oscars, the Austrians were too friendly to root against...
...group, rather than working at their desks, their demeanor suggested that something had happened during the day, but all refused to comment. Radcliffe’s official spokeswoman, Whitney Espich, said only that Faust was not in Cambridge that day. Faust’s whereabouts proved difficult to pin down: an evening call to her house on Brattle Street revealed that she was in Philadelphia, attending a Board of Trustees meeting at Bryn Mawr. The individual who answered the phone—possibly her husband, Harvard professor Charles Rosenberg—said he did not know when she would return...
...Taiwanese military experts, the message seems clear: that the island can no longer rely on the U.S. and its military and technological might to protect it from Chinese forces. Lin Chong-pin, president of the Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies and a former deputy defense minister, points to the Taiwan Straits crisis of 1996, when escalating tensions prompted the U.S. to send two aircraft carrier battle groups to the region in an attempt to defuse the situation. In a similar scenario today, Lin says, China's ability to destroy satellites would reduce the effectiveness of U.S. forces, which...
...knows, maybe he wants a pin-striped suit late in life,” Keith says. “It will be his first...