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...billboard urging locals to support officials who assume power under the new scheme. With the autonomy program, much of Jakarta's former power over finance and administration has been passed down to some 360 regencies?what would be called counties in other countries?and municipalities. It's a radical shift in the way Indonesia is governed, decided upon in direct response to restive populations in Aceh, Irian Jaya and Riau. The autonomy program, however, also encourages resentments and jealousies as it disenfranchises some local bureaucrats. Soon after the killing began in Kalimantan, police arrested three men for paying 20 million...
...panelists spoke about how their eating disorders seemed to develop in correlation with changes in school, a shift from a known environment to the unknown...
...simply not enough. In England, each half-hour of news contains between 20 and 25 minutes of national and international coverage with the remainder devoted to local issues and special interest stories. Even if switching to this system would be too great a shift, some movement needs to be made in this direction. Only then can Americans become better educated about the events which are daily shaping their nation. Residents of what is supposedly the greatest nation in the world should care about more than their own narrow, regional interests...
...Andreas Gursky, who was recently featured in a profile by Calvin Tomkins in The New Yorker (January 22, 2001). The Bechers pioneered a type of detached objectivity in their photography. Despite their preference for black and white, Hofer, like many of their other students, has turned to color. This shift relieved Hoferof the burden of developing: in a 1994 interview in the Journal of Contemporary Art, she stated: "I have gone from black and white to color and now everything is very comfortable for me ... I did not like the darkness of the darkroom."Hofer...
Fisher and Government Department chair Roderick L. MacFarquhar said that the most important reason for this shift is the increased number of two-career families--especially when both husband and wife are academics...