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Some claimed that Mahuad's effort at conciliation rang hollow...
...riding high. After 32 years of Suharto's dictatorship and 17 months of interim rule by Suharto's deputy B.J. Habibie, Indonesia was finally getting a reformist President who preached tolerance and democratic openness. But as the blind Muslim cleric and his family mounted the palace steps, a cry rang out. A dukun--a Javanese soothsayer--who habitually accompanies Wahid called the party to a halt. He said he could see the "big man," the spirit of Suharto, standing in the doorway at the top of the steps. He insisted on carrying out a prayer ritual before the President...
...Cambridge resident called CPD to report that her neighbor rang her doorbell and started screaming at her. The neighbor threatened to punch her in the face, claiming that the resident touched her baby carriage...
Amartya Sen's piece "Will There Be Any Hope for the Poor?" [ESSAY, May 22] rang true. The urgent inquiry is, How do we help the poor now in ways that get underneath the crust of political corruption, economic dysfunction or cultural abuse? One answer is by assisting them on a very practical and intimate basis at the local grass-roots level. For 29 years, our humanitarian organization has been providing small loans, called microcredit, to the working poor in 25 developing countries. These loans, for little or no collateral, help a poor mother start a little business...
...ceremony concluded precisely at noon, as church bells in Cambridge rang out to signify the end of the ceremony...