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...recapture territory by sending guerrilla fighters into the general population. That's still a potent tactic. On Feb. 9, a female suicide bomber killed 28 people, including 20 soldiers, at a screening point for IDPs. This kind of asymmetrical warfare--the LTTE was the global pioneer in the use of suicide bombers--allowed a few thousand fighters to hold their own for decades against the Sri Lankan army's 50,000 soldiers. So the most recent army offensive uses a new strategy. The military clears people from every stretch of territory it captures. Those displaced must either seek shelter deeper...
...protagonist, Hidayat, is a Jakartan intellectual caught up in the Japanese occupation. The conquerors use Bahasa Indonesia, the archipelago's lingua franca, as an administrative tongue in their polyglot territory. Hidayat - drawing on Alisjahbana's actual wartime employment in occupied Indonesia's language office - is put in charge of formalizing its grammar and syntax. In the novel (as it was in life), the office is a meeting place for nationalists who seize on Japan's defeat in 1945 to declare independence and adopt Bahasa Indonesia as the new nation's official tongue...
...Agricole. Boston’s Consul General of France, Francois Gauthier, presented Ost with the honor in Gauthier’s Cambridge home. The French government award recognized Ost’s culinary career, which spans nearly four decades. It also honored his promotion of French cuisine and his use of local ingredients in his dishes. Gauthier indicated that approximately three to five people in the US receive the distinction each year, and that he was the individual who had nominated Ost for the highly selective honor. Past recipients of the award include culinary luminaries Julia Child, who introduced French...
...Noah M. Silver ’10 is a history concentrator in Quincy House. In his column, “Hindsight,” he will use historical analogies to examine current affairs—at both a local and national level—on alternate Wednesdays...
...challenged, they add that he has been consciously trying to shift into a more press-friendly role at the White House, a move symbolized by his often open office door. "He's always been good with the stick," Axelrod jokes about Gibbs. "He has also learned over time to use the carrot...