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“I have faith that very soon all this region is going to be pacified and brotherhood and concord will return,” he said during a recent visit to La Concordia to inaugurate a new bridge.

The country had hoped to officially inaugurate the city on the 79th anniversary of its declaration of independence in 1945 after centuries of Dutch rule and then Japanese occupation during World War Two.

Other venues are trying a dual track: Amsterdam, for example, is seeking to crack down on public drunkenness, discourage gawkers in the famous red-light district and curtail holiday apartment rentals — going so far as to inaugurate a “Stay Away” campaign aimed mainly at British stag partyers — while enticing visitors to venture outside the tiny confines of the city’s canal-lined center.

Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission has used antitrust law to inaugurate a new era of economic oversight, banning predatory noncompete agreements against workers, cracking down on megamergers, and targeting various outrages from Silicon Valley as violations of privacy and fair play.

One new initiative is a principals’ academy, which will inaugurate a two-year training regimen for aspiring administrators.