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...even by Aceh's standards, the past year has been grim, and there is scant promise of relief. Last May, after the collapse of peace talks, Jakarta launched a massive military campaign against G.A.M.?a move that many saw as politically expedient for President Megawati Sukarnoputri, bestowing upon her an image of toughness that would belie her reputation as a remote and indecisive leader. The campaign was also popular with senior army brass, still smarting at their loss of prestige and power after dictator Suharto's toppling in 1998. But the quick success the generals predicted...
...hard to be optimistic about the quality of the debate. Some of those present are members of insurgent groups that have reached cease-fire agreements with Rangoon and are primarily concerned with safeguarding their own interests, which include expanding their business empires and strengthening their militias. They have scant interest in challenging the status quo?and that suits the government, which has declared that one of the key objectives of the convention is to ensure "participation by the defense services in national political leadership in the future state...
Shutting down the Center would come at great cost to the student body—Harvard offers scant resources for the study of developing countries as it is. Outside the CID these are dispersed over dozens of departments and academic centers, such that students interested in majoring in the field must petition for a special concentration. Lacking the CID’s crucial cluster of resources, undergraduates would have virtually no incentive to study development. Summers has indicated that should he proceed with a shutdown, students would not lose these programs. Yet even assuming the ideal scenario—that...
...struggles of a poor black family in a Chicago tenement at the dawn of the civil rights era. The revival of A Raisin in the Sun that opened last week on Broadway is groundbreaking in a way more suited to our times. It stars a hip-hop impresario with scant acting experience, making his Broadway debut: Sean (P. Diddy) Combs...
Busta himself is an interesting personality, not just because of his “crazy antics” but because he’s one of the scant few rappers from the Native Tongues era who’s made it in the post-Bad Boy age. You might think his success in the past decade has been about keeping a unique style through at least three major iterations of hip-hop, but it’s got more to do with knowing exactly how to get an audience. Few others could go from an old school (or rather...