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Environmentalists are hoping that Australia's largest temperate rain forest, the Tarkine, does not one day follow the fate of the aboriginal tribe after which it's named. The indigenous people who inhabited this northwestern swath of Tasmania for some 10,000 years were wiped out by conflict and disease in the wake of 19th century colonial settlement. Today, their former home?rich in ancient groves and pristine water courses?may be under threat from the island's logging industry, which intends to process the trees into wood chips and pulp. Granted, the Tarkine, spanning 450,000 hectares...
...doing favors across racial and national boundaries. He knows when an obsequious word or a proffered bottle of single-malt Scotch will do him the most good with corrupt local officialdom. And he is doing his best to ignore the rising tensions between his country's ruling Hutu tribe (of which he is a member) and the rebellious Tutsi...
...when al-Yawer, 46, arrives at the White House this week for meetings, he is likely to receive a VIP's welcome. As the interim government's highest-ranking Sunni and a sheik of Iraq's most powerful tribe, al-Yawer has become a key U.S. ally. Chronic violence in Sunni-dominated areas has raised doubts about whether significant numbers of Sunnis, who make up 20% of Iraq's population but have ruled the country for more than 80 years, will participate in national elections scheduled for Jan. 30. Last month a group of political parties called for the elections...
There was very little potential on view when al-Yawer assumed the presidency in June. He was a last-minute compromise candidate; as a member of the Shammar tribe, which includes Shi'ites and Sunnis, he was acceptable to both. In the first months of his tenure al-Yawer was rarely seen or heard in Baghdad, overshadowed by the tough-talking Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi. Some criticized al-Yawer for spending too much time in other Arab capitals. But those weren't pleasure trips. Says a Western diplomat in Baghdad: "If you asked the leaders of neighboring countries who they...
Central bankers are a risk-averse tribe. But Sinan al-Shabibi risks his life every time he drives to his office in downtown Baghdad. Government officials are killed or kidnapped every day by insurgents who see them as traitors for cooperating with the American "occupiers." "If I told you that sort of thing doesn't worry me, I would not be telling the truth," says al-Shabibi, 63. "[The insurgents] make my job more, shall we say, interesting?" Since he took over as central-bank governor a year ago, al-Shabibi, a former economist at the Geneva-based U.N. Conference...