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- Bankiing in a troubled country
Mark Landler, NY Times, April 20, 2001
"Since November, Mr. Gerungan, 52, has been the chairman of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency. The agency was created in 1998 to bail out Indonesia's ruined banking system. In the process, it took control of a vast portfolio of assets owned by virtually all the nation's banks and their affiliated conglomerates -- everything from palm-oil plantations and textile mills to automakers and resort hotels.
"On paper, the banking agency's job is straightforward: sell as many assets as possible to recoup the $70 billion that the Indonesian government spent to rescue its banks during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. The drastic decline in currency values devastated the economy of Indonesia, the world's fourth-most-populous nation, inflaming political discontent and social unrest that persist today."
- Dark Side of U.S. Quest for Security: Squalor on an Atoll
Howard W. French, NY Times, June 11 2001
"KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Marshall Islands — Several times a year, these tiny Pacific islands witness a light show more spectacular than almost any offered by nature, when a gaggle of ballistic missiles, minus their warheads, streak in low, roaring through the night sky and hurtle into the nearby lagoon."
Article has powerful images of tracking radar installation and A-bomb crater on Boken Island.
- Japan and Tobacco Revenue: Leader Faces Difficult Choice
Stephanie Strom, NY Times, June 13, 2001
" TOKYO, June l2— For pushing through an ordinance banning cigarette vending machines from the streets of his tiny town a few hundred miles north of Tokyo, the World Health Organization wanted to bestow an award on the mayor of Fukauramachi in honor of No Smoking Day last month.
"But the mayor refused it. The law, the first in a country where cigarette vending machines are as common as water fountains, does not take effect until Oct. 1 and includes no penalties for violators -- but some vending machine owners are still fighting it."
- Management: Behind Bars and on the Clock
Edward Wong, NY Times, June 6, 2001
"PENDLETON, Ore. — The workday begins on a patch of black asphalt ringed by razor-wire fence. This is where more than 200 inmates of the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution line up at 7:45 on weekdays. They are clad in blue jeans and inspected like cattle by men with pistols and crew cuts and gray uniforms. Their names are called out, their bodies frisked."
Letter from Jenni Gainsborough at the Sentencing Project: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/11/opinion/l-working-in-prison-717622.html
- Nightclubs hire ambulances for overdoses, skipping 911
Jennifer Steinhauer, NY Times, April 20, 2001
Some Manhattan nightclubs have hired private ambulance companies to wait outside and swiftly take revelers who overdose to hospital emergency rooms, bypassing the 911 system and the attention of the police.
- Soul-searching at another Polish massacre site
Steven Erlanger, NY Times, April 19, 2001
"RADZILOW, Poland— Sixty years ago this July, the Jews of this impoverished town were collected in the central square, supposedly to weed between the cobblestones. The Jews were taunted, beaten, tormented and stabbed, then forced together into a barn, where they were burned alive.
"Today, at the site of the barn, 1,000 yards away down Piekna Street, is a memorial plaque that reads: ''In August 1941 fascists murdered 800 people of Jewish nationality, and among those, 500 were burned alive in a barn.'' One memorial candle, in a rusting holder, rests in front of it.
"The plaque is not only wrong about the date, but about the perpetrators. The Nazis encouraged the murder, but it was carried out by the Poles of Radzilow.
"After the publication last May of newspaper articles and a book, Poles have dug deep into their souls -- and the archives -- to examine their own responsibility for nearly identical events in nearby Jedwabne, where up to 1,600 Jews were killed and burned alive in a barn by their Polish neighbors."
- Success of Kentucky’s Health Plan Comes With New Obstacles
Success of Kentucky’s Health Plan Comes With New Obstacles
New York Times
By Abby Goodnough, Dec. 29, 2014