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...Saudis publically announced last week that the al-Haramein Foundation had been ordered to close eight of its foreign offices and that its charitable activities will be confined to the kingdom. The Saudis also plan to bring three other major charities to heel--al-Rabita, the World Muslim Youth League and the International Islamic Relief Organization. Some U.S. officials insist that the Saudis will have to do still more to break a pattern of appeasing Islamic militants. Yet acting forcefully would represent a risk for the House of Saud, which has long drawn legitimacy from deeply religious Muslims...
...than despair: the need to dramatize the social process that shapes boys into men. In virtually all his films--from his 1984 Yellow Earth to his new Together--a child falls under a teacher's benign or malign spell. Chen is thus replaying the privileges and nightmares of his youth and repaying a deeper debt to his father...
...northern Aceh that has been ravaged by conflict since the Indonesian military last week launched its massive campaign to crush the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM). As the gravediggers maneuvered Khairurrazi's body onto its side to face Mecca, blood seeped through his shroud. Khairurrazi, always a thin, sickly youth, had expected an illness to kill him. Instead, he was beaten and bayoneted, then shot in the head. "Half his skull was blown off," weeped his mother, Ramla, clutching a Muslim prayer book. "I had to pick up my poor boy's brains and put them back in his head...
...Many of the 30,000 Japanese who kill themselves every year no longer fit the stereotype of the jobless, middle-aged salaryman. Suicides are on the rise among young men and women and with the shift in demographics comes a new style of self destruction. Youth are using a bizarre Internet aberration?the suicide site?to hook up with desperate soulmates willing to share their bleak journey. In February, two women and a man, all in their 20s, met on a suicide site and killed themselves in a Saitama apartment. Since then there have been seven similar incidents...
...last public mention of Aziz Saleh Numan - the King of Diamonds in the US deck of most-wanted Iraqis - came on March 24. It was only days after U.S. forces launched the war. In a broadcast apparently intended to show that Saddam was still in charge, the "Voice of Youth Radio,? a station run by Uday, Saddam's eldest son, reported that the Iraqi president met with Numan, and Republican Guard chief Qusay Hussein, another of Saddam's sons...