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...Going with the Flow"] Lusi may, in fact, be unstoppable. In 1979, the oil company Shell set off a similar eruption while drilling off the shore of Brunei. That mudflow took 20 years and 20 relief wells to halt, according to Mark Tingay, a geologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Lusi may eventually choke itself as mud clogs its interior plumbing. But if left to die on its own, Davies estimates that it could continue to erupt for years, and perhaps even decades. Hardi Prasetyo, deputy head of the new government team in charge of Lusi, says that...
...qualify the repressive nature of the regime with praise of those supposed advances in medicine and education is unacceptable. Anything that falls short of a free society leaves all other considerations insignificant. It is hard to imagine that 90 miles from our shore, freedoms are alienable. In Cuba, the choice to dissent from the government has dire ramifications. Citizens are imprisoned for merely voicing an opinion. Prisoners of conscience are systematically tortured and often executed for not conforming to the constraints of the totalitarian state—just some of many blatant violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
...quickly and simultaneously on several fronts. They can draw on the money that will flow in from East Timor's offshore oil reserves to create a New Deal kind of job corps for former fighters and young gang members. They should implement an aggressive demobilization program. They should rapidly shore up East Timor's institutions by reducing the use of Portuguese and recruiting international judges and lawyers for the courts. Only then can there be real peace. And only then will East Timor be truly independent...
...lead to a loss of confidence throughout the banking system, with potentially devastating consequences for the rest of the economy. For this reason, central banks must stand ready, in the case of a potential systemic risk of this kind, to step in as lender of last resort to shore up the failed bank until the crisis can be resolved. In return, banks have to submit to a degree of official supervision unknown to other businesses in a market economy...
...Tony Benn, longtime Laborite leftist and prime architect of the party's disastrous manifesto, planned to make a run, but his unexpected loss last week knocked him out of the race. Among the remaining moderates, the leading contenders are Roy Hattersley, Labor's spokesman for domestic affairs, and Peter Shore, shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Hattersley, who helped negotiate Britain's entry into the Common Market, surprised many by not breaking away to join the S.D.P. Nonetheless, he has made it clear he is at odds with Labor's manifesto; for example, he opposes unilateral disarmament and would keep Britain...