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...brutal, unchecked crackdown in Aceh is transporting Indonesia back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship, exposing the military's reformist claims of recent years as a sham. With the Aceh campaign entering its third week, T.N.I.'s strategy-if that's the word-is shockingly clear. First, saturate the benighted countryside with trigger-happy soldiers and flush out any GAM suspects on a tsunami of civilian blood. Second, frighten into silence anyone who dares to report on the gory consequences, such as the summary execution of eight young men and boys at Peusangan in northern Bireun district...
...Russian President rode to power in 1999 on the promise that he alone could bring peace to Chechnya. To that end, he compelled Chechens to vote on a political solution to the conflict last March, an exercise widely dismissed as a sham because it was conducted by force. Putin did pull a token number of troops out of Chechnya and promised that he would put an end to the routine abductions and executions of Chechen civilians. Yet more than 200 people have been abducted since the vote took place. "We know for a fact that the reprisals have grown much...
...reconstruction of Iraq will require great skill and sensitivity as well, and events on the ground do not bode well. Many Iraqis moved with unseemly haste from dancing in the streets to stealing everything that wasn't tied down. Worse, their gratitude--which seemed equal parts real and sham--dissolved into griping within days. One wonders how they will receive their newly designated American saviors, Bechtel and a division of Halliburton...
There has to be something more to “masculinity,” whatever the hell that is, than this flat-chested sham; I have a hard time believing that I’m slated to earn $.73 for every dollar that a man in a comparable job would earn simply because I lack a petite bulge in my shorts. If I’m to be a convincing guy, I’ll need to act from a consistent, stereotypically male worldview. According to Starecheski, that means inflating my confidence and my sense of entitlement and privilege. Somewhere...
...reconstruction of Iraq will require great skill and sensitivity as well, and events on the ground do not bode well. Many Iraqis moved with unseemly haste from dancing in the streets to stealing everything that wasn't tied down. Worse, their gratitude - which seemed equal parts real and sham - dissolved into griping within days. One wonders how they will receive their newly designated American saviors, Bechtel and a division of Halliburton...