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Currently HIID is working in Indonesia a country that has been accused of human right excesses in recent years. The problem in Indonesia centers around the island province of East Timor a former Portuguese colony granted independence in 1976. Since that time the Indonesian government has tried to integrate East Timor but has met with Strong resistance...
...being French: Let us speak of the forgotten man, abandoned, lost, delivered over to the powers that crush him. People in most places are dying of hunger, of misery and solitude; a whole people was killed in Cambodia, and another is being killed in Timor; the children of Uganda awake to the consciousness of the wretchedness of having been born; and the birds of prey-the world powers-are gnawing on the bones of 2,000 million human beings. Where would the established order be on two-thirds of this planet without the machine gun or the rope, torture...
Even the system of governance he has constructed as dean resembles a paragon of bureaucracy. "The school is ruled like the island of Timor," Allison says. "Everyone sits around a big fire. Up comes an issue. Those most interested in that issue gather in the center of the circle. Those in the inner circle study the matter, and bring it back to the outer circle for approval." He compares faculty members to "partners in a law firm...
...find him a little distant, harsh, overbearing, or thick-skinned. To do his job he has to be--most of us are not good at giving people bad news, but as dean he is fully responsible for all the hard decisions," Schelling says, evoking questions about the island of Timor arrangement...
...find him a little distant, harsh, overbearing, or thick-skinned. To do his job he has to be--most of us are not good at giving people bad news, but as dean he is fully responsible for all the hard decisions," Schelling says, evoking questions about the island of Timor arrangement...