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...make Simon Cowell cringe, but she regularly packs concerts and performs on national television. She hasn't released a single recording, but one critic estimates that some 3 million pirated VCDs of her performances have been sold in Indonesia. Muslim clerics denounce her bump-and-grind dancing, attempt to ban her concerts, even pray for rain to keep impressionable fans away from her shows, yet politicians are lining up to recruit her support for the 2004 elections. She's become the live wire connecting Indonesia's still nascent freedom of expression with the country's entrenched?and often hypocritical?moral...
...said in a meeting with a student Thursday that Houses would need to present him with detailed information about their plans before he would approve any such events. While Illingworth said that his concerns could be addressed in a timely fashion, some students worried the rules would effectively ban spring formals in clubs...
...Bechler's family, including his pregnant wife. But Dr. Joshua Perper, the medical examiner who autopsied Bechler, used the righthander's death to call for a crusade. After finding a weight-loss supplement in Bechler's stomach, Perper held a press conference and urged Major League Baseball to ban ephedra, a controversial herb found in the supplement that is similar to amphetamines. Even before the funeral, many in the baseball world--sports columnists, team physicians, franchise owners--were echoing Perper, asking the league to join the NFL and the Olympics in prohibiting ephedra. Members of Congress are talking about...
Players and owners will debate an ephedra ban but, given their past acrimony, don't expect a quick resolution. Even if the herb remains in the locker rooms, Bechler's death will have taught many players--and those who idolize them--that ephedra isn't something to be popped blindly. --Reported by David Bjerklie and Sean Gregory/New York and Alison Onianwa/Fort Lauderdale
...Unthong's mother was the first casualty in Thailand's war on drugs. She died just after midnight on Feb. 1, moments after the launch of a three-month government campaign to rid the country of narcotics. Jay's parents were small-time dealers in their village of Ban Rai, in western Ratchaburi province. His mother, Yupin, was reportedly on a police blacklist. Her husband, Boonchuay, spent 18 months in jail for possession of amphetamine pills, known in Thai as ya ba, or crazy medicine. On Jan. 31, the family spent the evening playing fairground games at a local temple...