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...quickly turned into a tourist attraction. Foreigners flocked to the public park in Jakarta to honor the U.S. President, who lived four years of his childhood in the Indonesian capital. Locals visited, too, but they weren't as pleased. "Indonesians mostly came to protest," says park groundskeeper Yunus. "They didn't want the statue here." Less than three months after a local Obama fan club raised $10,000 for the monument, it was quietly moved in February to a nearby school where Obama had studied. "I'm not against Obama," says Protus Tanuhandaru, one of the Indonesian founders...
William Silvert, São Brás de Alportel, Portugal One line really struck me - "Washington, which knows that the world remains a dangerous place ..." - and its implication that Europe doesn't know this. Washington didn't even know that the world beyond its borders existed before 9/11. Then it suddenly discovered terrorism and leaped into the lead in fighting this threat. And who happily signed on? Britain, which had been fighting the IRA for ages and who had seen U.S. support for terrorism dry up (some Irish pubs in the U.S. even had IRA collection boxes); Spain, whose...
...curious bronze statue of a 10-year-old Barack Obama quickly turned into a tourist attraction. Foreigners flocked to the park in Jakarta to honor the U.S. President, who spent four years of his childhood in the Indonesian capital. Locals visited too, but they weren't as pleased. "Indonesians didn't want the statue here," says Yunus, a park keeper. After three months, the monument was quietly moved to a nearby school where Obama studied. "I'm not against Obama," says Protus Tanuhandaru, one of the founders of a Facebook page that called for the figure's removal...
Deschanel and musician M. Ward have been performing under the unassuming name She & Him since they released their debut album, Volume One, in 2008. "The first copies didn't even have my name on them," says Deschanel. "If no one ever found out that it was me, I wouldn't have cared." It worked. Critics ignored the star's involvement and focused on the music: relaxed songs sung in Deschanel's achingly tender voice, bringing to mind '60s girl groups and the Nashville sound...
Volume Two, which features 11 songs penned by Deschanel (plus two covers) and produced by Ward, has a similar tone but ups the complexity of the arrangements. "It's much more difficult to play live," says Deschanel. "We're in rehearsals now, and I'm like, Oh, man, why didn't I write simpler songs?" The result, however, is clean and intimate--the sound of a duo making music as much for themselves as for an audience. The first single, "In the Sun," is upbeat and danceable, but the standout track is "Thieves"--a brokenhearted love song so timeless that...