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...Zealand constable can exercise great authority. As the only person who carries a pistol in this part of the New Georgia Islands, once known for its marauding head-hunters, in theory Curragh has power in the way Mao envisaged it. She is usually flanked by two handsome Tongan colleagues and is greeted as Luisa or Madam wherever she goes. But the reason for Curragh's secret contentment is this: 6,000 km from her home in the Bay of Plenty, she has, to her surprise, found purpose, confidence and a sense of belonging amid the azure waters, lush forests...
Arafat at first denied that the Palestinian Authority had any connection to the guns Israel took off the Tongan-registered freighter Karine A. Then, pressured by the U.S. and the European Union, he ordered an inquiry that blamed three Palestinian officials. That the P.A. was involved was no shock, given the Authority's established record of smuggling arms. But the Iranian angle is something new. Last week senior Israeli officials detailed to TIME their evidence of an Iranian connection to the Karine A. If indeed Iran sent arms to the P.A.--which Iran emphatically denied--Arafat would appear...
...Arafat at first denied that the Palestinian Authority had any connection to the guns Israel took off the Tongan-registered freighter Karine A. Then, pressured by the U.S. and the European Union, he ordered an inquiry that blamed three Palestinian officials. That the P.A. was involved was no shock, given the Authority's established record of smuggling arms. But the Iranian angle is something new. Last week senior Israeli officials detailed to Time their evidence of an Iranian connection to the Karine A. If indeed Iran sent arms to the P.A.--which Iran emphatically denied--Arafat would appear...
...with the cash these virtual companies siphon out of the old world order, Gullichsen plans to build a new one. The crown prince has given him the run of a tiny Tongan outrider island, which Gullichsen hopes to turn into a prototype sustainable environment. "I'm setting up an ecologically closed community," he says. "I'll have a wind generator, solar panels, a geodesic dome and hydroponics. I want to live off the grid but still be online--be connected to the global fabric but from a venue that is free from regulation and in harmony with the environment...
Such changes require adaptation not only in the schools and the marketplace but throughout society. The Los Angeles County court system now provides interpreters for 80 different languages from Albanian and Amharic to Turkish and Tongan. One judge estimates that nearly half his cases require an interpreter. Sometimes the results are freakish. A police officer testified that he had read a Chinese suspect his Miranda rights in Chinese, in the Tai- shan dialect. The suspect only understood Cantonese. The judge thereupon ruled out his confession...