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...vote in the 2004 general election, Indonesia's secularized, nationalist parties are careful not to alienate what is believed to be an increasingly influential Islamic vote. The regent of Cianjur comes from a nationalist party, as does the mayor of Tangerang, a Jakarta suburb where women out alone after sunset have been arrested as prostitutes even though they were just commuting home from work. So, too, the mayor of Padang city in western Sumatra, who credited mandatory head-to-ankle attire for female students with a reduction in mosquito-borne dengue fever. "If you have people from non-Islamic parties...
...everybody ready out there?" came the cry. Then the countdown: "Five! ... Four! ... Three! ... Two! ... One!" And a jubilant roar: "We did it!" In the glow of a Florida sunset, a herd of screaming children stampeded into Indian Harbour Beach's just completed playground last month and began scrambling over the turreted fortress of mazes and bridges, slides and ladders, tire tunnels and sand-boxes. As the youngsters gamboled, beaming parents and teachers stood along the periphery, exchanging handshakes and hugs...
Founded in the 13th century in this chilly spot - which was ideal for its access to both the river and mines - Viganella has declined with the sunset of the local iron industry. The hope is that both by luring more of the town's some 150 residents into the public square, and by attracting visitors, this device might revive an area that has lost more than two-thirds of its population in the past century...
...brutally assimilated the gold-rush camp in this expertly written work of sagebrush Shakespeare. (No other TV show is so wonderful just to listen to, swear words and all.) Backstage dealings have apparently denied the series a fourth season--an epilogue has been promised--but it rode into the sunset memorably...
...pundits asked, could Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip miss? It was made by the guy who did The West Wing! It had that funny guy from Friends! It was about Saturday Night Live! There had been a network bidding war for it! But after the first episode, viewership plummeted, and while the show is not exactly a failure, it's not a success. And it's pretty expensive to be only the 51st most popular on TV. On the other hand, Seinfeld started badly...