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...were JI members and that they believe one of the group's senior leaders, Dulmatin, played an important role in planning the killings. So far, Jakarta's swift clampdown has forestalled retaliatory attacks by Christian vigilantes that could restart the cycle of tit-for-tat violence. But according to Sidney Jones, Southeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group, there are several hundred JI members and sympathizers in the region where the attacks took place, and the danger of another provocation remains high. Although many JI operatives have been caught in the past 12 months, the group has proved...
...Sidney Verba, chair of the Faculty Library Committee, says measures to curb spending have taken place on all levels of the HCL’s operation, including an increased reliance on outsourced cataloging, a minimization of book preservation to a “viable core” and the canceling of duplicate journal subscriptions...
...Sidney Harman, founder of the high-fidelity audio firm Harman/Kardon, said that society can engender good behavior through regulation and legislation, pointing to his own company as an example...
...last weekend in its original form. The play tells the story of Paul, a young black man who stumbles into the living room of wealthy New York art dealer Flan and his wife Ouisa. Paul, who tells Flan and Ouisa that he is the son of the famous actor Sidney Poitier and that he goes to Harvard with their children, surprises the couple with his excellent cooking and knowledge of art and literature. After they invite Paul to spend the night, he surprises them once again when he invites a male prostitute to his guest bedroom. Flan and Ouisa soon...
...enough English to memorize a list of significant authors and identify them by their book covers; they're also highly attuned to the tastes of the Indian reading public. Diwakar, a 19-year-old book-hawker, rattles off the names of his top sellers with ease: "Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sidney Sheldon, John Grisham" and, of course, "Harry Potter." They also know that pirated editions of The Joy of Sex are always in high demand, as are copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Says street-side seller Vinod Jain, 21, who always keeps Hitler's book in stock...