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...human-rights abuses. But it was also hoped that Yudhoyono's visit would help entice foreign investors to Indonesia who are still skeptical over corruption and spooked by the country's terrorist rumblings?a fear that the embassy closure does nothing to assuage. It's possible, though, that the shutdown might actually strengthen Yudhoyono's hand in dealing with...
...Pyongyang really has the Bomb, but neighboring countries think it unwise to test whether Kim Jong Il is bluffing. So getting Pyongyang back to the negotiating table?the "six-party talks" that the North walked out of last June?becomes more urgent by the month. Recently, the apparent shutdown of a reactor at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear power plant has increased anxiety that Pyongyang might be stalling for time while it harvests weapons-grade plutonium to make more warheads...
...Since President Hu Jintao assumed full control of the government in September, there have been several signs of a widening crackdown on freedom of expression: the shutdown of A Complete Mess, a politically pluralistic university chat site; the firing of several prominent journalists; and the canceling of classes taught by a Peking University professor who openly criticized China's propaganda system in essays, interviews and lectures. Last month when a Guangdong newsweekly published a list of 50 "public intellectuals," the state-run People's Daily responded with a sharply worded editorial attacking the concept: "What is meant by 'public intellectual...
...embassy. It's a commute she may not be making much longer. Like most of Bangladesh's 1.8 million textile workers, she has heard rumors that next year the American and European companies that buy clothes from her country will switch to Chinese manufacturers, leading to a shutdown of garment factories in Dhaka. The zero-sum math of globalization makes little sense to one of its potential victims. "How can the Chinese make clothes more cheaply than we do," asks Begum, "when I get paid so little...
Harvard’s defense shutdown the Quakers’ attack all day. Penn managed only 263 yards of total offense and the Crimson front seven held Mathews to just 57 yards on the ground. Harvard forced three turnovers and surrendered just 195 yards...