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...music and turned the lyrics safely sweet. Cynical politicians began using dangdut musicians, including Suharto favorite Rhoma, to court the lower classes. "Dangdut has been corrupted for the political campaigns," says Kompas music critic Bre Redana. In a familiar Indonesian story, the music of the people became a tool of the powerful...
Toyi-toyi became a valuable tool, both as an effective way to physically condition members of the underground and an intimidation technique against the police...
...past three decades, he has gone to great lengths to conceal his vast, ill-gotten fortune. "Money is profoundly important to Saddam, but not because of greed," says Dr. Jerrold Post, a psychiatrist and former CIA profiler of the Iraqi leader. "It represents instead his insurance policy and a tool through which he exercises power and manipulates others...
There is a need for a mature debate about the correct course to pursue in dealing with Saddam, a need that is especially important in light of the Bush Administration’s distressing secrecy. Protest is a vital democratic tool by which the masses can make their views heard. And I, for one, feel that this is a war worth protesting. But until the leadership of Harvard’s protests is wrested from the hands of HIPJ’s out-of-touch radicals, I will have to pass on lunchtime rallies at the Science Center. After...
...pairwise rankings are a statistical tool created by USCHO.com to approximate the process which is used to select the field of 16 teams for the NCAA men’s hockey tournament...