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...President Megawati Sukarnoputri, famous for her reticence, stayed true to form in her last days in office. Despite official confirmation that rival Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had beaten her by a whopping 20 percentage points in September's runoff vote, the 57-year-old has remained largely silent on the subject. "Whoever has been chosen, we must graciously accept it," she said in an Armed Forces Day address on Oct. 5. But that was as close as she came to acknowledging defeat?and the President seemed to be having trouble following her own advice. Although Yudhoyono was seated nearby...
...frail, relying on a walking stick. But the imam's voice is strong, and the some 50 men, women and boys crammed into a dingy room sit enraptured as he talks for two hours, waving his hands for emphasis and making eye contact with his listeners. The subject matter is familiar: verses of the Koran spliced with denunciations of the war the U.S. and its allies are waging against Islam; the suffering of Muslims worldwide; the sacred duty to struggle against those who would deny Muslims the chance to worship in peace. The preacher's voice?he requested anonymity?rises...
DIED. JOHN E. MACK, 74, controversial Pulitzer prize-winning psychiatrist; after being hit by a drunk driver; in London. Mack, a Harvard Medical School professor, was best known for his studies of people who claimed to have had alien encounters. His 1994 book on the subject, which concluded that "the abduction phenomenon has important philosophical, spiritual and social implications," caused Harvard to consider censure, but a committee later "reaffirmed Dr. Mack's academic freedom...
...diagramming a sentence; one focuses not on the semantic meaning of the whole (what the sentence actually “means” in the traditional sense) but on the structural relationships of various parts that allow the whole to mean anything in the first place (the relationship of subject, verb and object, that renders the sentence’s meaning intelligible...
...touch with Beth Rubenstein of the Cambridge Economic Development Division. She explained that while there tends to be a lot of community input in these matters, there is actually very little in the way of local regulation. Though development projects of 50,000 square feet or more are subject to community hearings, property owners are reserved tremendous autonomy for smaller endeavors...