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...There's still much to do. Social services are woefully underdeveloped, there's too much dependency on foreign aid and potential Western investors worry both about renewed separatist violence and the introduction of strict Islamic law. Funding for improvement projects has come slowly, allowing resentment to fester. Roads remain badly damaged, while some areas, such as the district of Aceh Jaya, still don't have hospitals. "If a woman needs a C-section she will probably die in childbirth while making the trip to Banda Aceh," says Lynette Johnson, an Australian NGO worker. The provincial government says it is aware...
...long banned the open worship of other faiths, even as the number of Catholics resident in Saudi Arabia has risen to 800,000 thanks to an influx of immigrant workers from places like the Philippines and India. Mosques are the only houses of prayer in a country where the strict Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam dominates. But Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, the papal envoy to the smaller countries on the Arabian peninsula, such as Kuwait and Qatar, has confirmed that talks are under way to establish formal diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Saudi Arabia, and to eventually allow...
These days the company enforces strict ethical, social and environmental standards in its own factories and in those of its 48 producing partners worldwide. And, as LVMH and Prada do, it plays up its contemporary-art chops. Hugo Boss donates one of the world's richest contemporary-art prizes, the biennial Hugo Boss Prize, worth $100,000 this year. The company also is a major sponsor of the Berlin International Film Festival and, in sports, has a long-standing relationship with Formula One racing...
...think it’s an extremely effective policy,” said Harvard-Radcliffe Television President Michael C. Koenigs ’09. “It’s limited hazing across the board.” But not all students agree with the strict policy. “I’m uncertain whether holding students responsible to this extent is the most effective method,” said Tamar Holoshitz ’10, a member of the Undergraduate Council’s Student Affairs Committee. “But I do appreciate that the administration...
...Islamist parties have been banned before in Turkey, where strict secularism is enshrined in as a founding constitutional principle. But this time is different: The AKP is far more popular than any of its predecessors; its landslide victory in the election last year - prompted by a stand-off with the powerful generals rejecting the party's nominee for president - was largely a response to economic boom times, but also a sign that Turks are tired of military interference in politics...