TWO hours before President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) gave his speech, on Tuesday last week, the venue was still being used as a small cafeteria. Students of various ethnicities sat at round tables, opened laptops, flipped through pages of books, and held lively discussions while sipping coffee and eating snacks. Nearing the end of autumn in Boston, the students still dressed vibrantly in shorts and T-shirts. They were not phased by the forwa