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When traveling, I average five dollars a night on rooms. I camped out a lot. I mean, I did budget, I slept on the floors of people I met on trains, I slept in alleyways, I slept in a train station one night...
...towers of steel latticework. High-rise delicacies, they looked like ghostly evocations of the annihilated Trade Center--too much so for some people. The Port Authority also preferred Libeskind's design because it was less expensive and easier to integrate with their plans for transit lines and a rail station. And New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg liked the street life and plazas...
...after the Davao blast, a spokesman for the Abu Sayyaf group called a radio station in Zamboanga to claim responsibility for the attack. Philippine authorities immediately shot his claim down. The home turf of Abu Sayyaf, which specialized in kidnapping-for-ransom before dedicating itself to jihad last year, is far away on the islands of Jolo and Basilan, southwest of Mindanao. Some suspect that the Abu Sayyaf wanted to take the blame to sound more fearsome than it currently is?or to shield the MILF, which is in peace talks with Manila. Those talks are now stalled, intensifying...
Indonesia's police and military forces should be working together to subdue insurgencies, combat crime and crack down on terrorism. Last week, however, for the 15th time in the last two years, they battled each other. Some 60 air force personnel attacked a police station in East Jakarta, killing one policeman and wounding two others as they ransacked the office...
...clash began on March 2 after Air Force First Sergeant Budianto was arrested following a fight with a civilian. His colleagues came to the station demanding his release and, in an attempt to avoid a confrontation, the police assented. But when the air force crew returned two days later to retrieve Budianto's military ID card, they found it was in the possession of one of the civilians who filed the initial complaint. Furious with the police for not returning the ID, air force soldiers attacked the station later that night, fatally stabbing a police officer...