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...processing unit has just started work under a palm-thatched roof in the village of Tatelu. Fecky, a civil servant with the local government, lives next door. On this sunny morning he wanders over to watch the proceedings, his six-month-old daughter Indah?with gold hoop earrings, huge eyes and a mass of black curls?perched on his left shoulder. His 12-year-old son Dedy comes with him, scrambling over the stacked bags of ore and splashing with yips of delight through the lake of muddy water that surrounds the unit, all of it contaminated with mercury...
...enough about Larry Summers as an intellectual and public servant," Lane says. "He also knows how important it is to support science in the government and in our universities...
...fall, however, the movement has deepened its roots across the predominantly ethnic Aceh-nese province of 4.2 million. In many areas the central government's civil administration has all but ceased to function. "The Indonesian government is hardly working in the villages anymore," says Warman, an Acehnese civil servant in Lhokseumawe, who makes no secret of his GAM sympathies. Sitting in a coffee shop with a group of friends, he glances swiftly around before adding: "Here in town, we're still drawing salaries but we hardly go to work anymore. GAM is now far more active...
...Waddle has searched for a meaning for what happened, he keeps coming back to the story of Job in the Old Testament. "Job is the closest corollary to what has just happened in my life," he says. "Satan challenged God: 'You have a servant named Job--let me put him to the test.'" The testing was severe--Job lost his family, his belongings and his health, until he cursed the day he was born. But throughout, he maintained his faith in God. Waddle too has lost much: his career and his shipmates. His savings have been eaten up by legal...
...afraid Ms. Gordimer just doesn't get it. Her hilariously self-righteous response - which reads like the sort of pretentious literary description that the book would get in Cliff Notes - shows that her own attitudes are as anachronistic as the idea of the noble savage. "The black servant takes full responsibility for the couple," she writes, "sheltering them among his own people; even if students miss the irony of the reversal of dependence - white now dependent on black - this act of non-racial human feeling and tolerance is glaringly evident...