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...island traces its troubles to protests in 1989 against Bougainville Copper Limited's mine. A local landowner, Ona led others in demands for compensation and tighter environmental controls. The P.N.G. military was brought in to suppress the revolt, and the conflict evolved into a secessionist rebellion that eventually claimed the lives of between 12,000 and 15,000 people, according to the U.N. While other elements of the original independence fighters signed a ceasefire in 1998, Ona has vowed to occupy the mine and surrounding regions until Bougainville is granted independence...
...That’s not a cross, it’s an antenna,” he said, making a valiant, if ultimately unsuccessful, effort to suppress his contempt. “The bars measure your reception.” I called my brother at breakfast to ask about the proper usage of “to mack on.” (“What? I’m awake because you called me.… Oh—I think it’s ‘macking with.’ Like...
...advice from technology experts: suppress the urge to splurge, ideally until late 2005 or 2006. But in the end, it looks as though it will be only a matter of time before that old TV is as obsolete as a VCR or cassette player. "In 10 years' time, it'll be embarrassing to have a regular, old-fashioned TV set," says Martin Reynolds, an analyst at technology-consulting company Gartner in Stamford, Connecticut. If the Asian glut continues, chances are most television fans will be able to have a flat-panel TV hanging in the living room long before that...
...Those are great ideas. Great ideas. But I'd tell him, Put your money where your mouth is. Don't write off the black community. He also needs to treat his critics better. You can't say "You're with us, or you're against us." You can't suppress liberty...
...outside the polling place--Republicans and Democrats alike. "We might be a battleground state," said voter-protection volunteer Chris L'Estrange in Des Moines, Iowa, "but there's not much of a battle." Florida state troopers suspended safety checkpoints for the day to avoid any accusations of trying to suppress turnout...