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Meanwhile, in the far-flung islands of the archipelago, Indonesians are starting to thumb their noses at Jakarta. Squatters invade mines and plantations, nobody pays taxes, smuggling is rampant, and murders go unpunished. Since February, some Dayak tribesmen in central Kalimantan have kept the heads they cut off Madurese migrants as trophies of magic power. Indonesia has more than 1.2 million refugees from ethnic violence. Says sociologist Paulus Wirutomo: "There's a hate being kept alive in our culture. We have to get rid of this." Wahid tried but failed. And Megawati...
...distress or peril. But open the story to one of sweaty nights between the sheets or to the possibility of murder by a public figure, and the initial rush of sympathy is closed off as if by a valve. Enter, then, the cable-TV experts in somber fantasizing and rampant "scenarios," and a story that caused you to gulp now makes you salivate...
...These people, mind you, are the same ones who not only keep tobacco farmers farming but keep small convenience stores in business by adding a drink, snack or newspaper to their daily fix. And as the rampant fencing-out of smokers from restaurants, bars, offices and even the front stoops of federal buildings continues apace, smokers are clearly on their way to harming no one but themselves. (Drinkers, especially those who get behind the wheel, are more likely to harm innocents...
...Directors like Feng are the future of Chinese cinema, and their business is a tricky one. Obscure art-house films were fine back in the day when the directors were coddled with generous government subsidies. But in today's China, filmmakers must scramble for financing. To make matters worse, rampant video piracy is eating into movie profits. Illegal copies of Feng's last hit Sigh, for instance, were available days before the movie's premiere. Ticket revenues have declined by more than 40% since three years ago, and half as many movies are being made today...
...also bolted, stripping the coalition of both its federal governing partner and its majority in the federal parliament. The likely political gridlock could hasten Montenegro's split from Yugoslavia and will hamper efforts to rebuild a devastated economy. A recent World Bank report found that owing to chronic mismanagement, rampant corruption and the burdens of constantly financing wars, Yugoslavia's per capita gdp is just half the size it was in 1989, and unemployment...