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...military?s concern to put an end to last year?s riots that led General Wiranto to gently nudge Suharto out of power and to commit the country to elections. But Suharto?s handpicked heir, President B.J. Habibie, and his Golkar party potentially have sufficient support in the electoral assembly -- due to set-asides for the military and regional representatives -- to block Megawati?s accession. Despite her call for Suharto to be prosecuted for abuses of power, there?s unlikely to be an accord on her taking the presidency unless she gives some guarantee of immunity to the masters...
...Britain's biggest Internet service provider, announced today that it will launch its own free service under the name Netscape Online. The move comes three weeks after America Online unveiled a promotion in the U.S. that effectively gives a free ? and perfectly good ? computer to anyone willing to commit to three years of monthly online service charges from subsidiary CompuServe...
...originally agreed to represent him on the condition that all fees from the case go to anti-hate groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. And he had said he would drop out of the case if Hale and his organization did not commit themselves fully to non-violence...
...will do little to boost her stock with Hollywood moguls shopping for the next Julia Roberts. "There was no [career] strategy involved," she says. "I decided back in September that I really wanted to do a play, and I was fascinated by the material. What motivates some people to commit what is, from a judgmental point of view, a heinous act? We don't really acknowledge the irrational aspects of life that exist just because we are human...
...their children to be part of the math academies, parents have to commit to 4-hr. Saturday-morning sessions of U.C. Irvine's Parent Academy. There they are coached in what classes their kids need to get into college, how to gauge SAT scores and how to apply for financial aid. "These programs help parents have self-esteem, feel proud," says Mel Pelayo, a computer-network administrator who left school in third grade. "I didn't go to college, but I'm not a loser. I can help my kids...