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This is the second year of living dangerously for Indonesian President Suharto. During the first, in 1965, he coolly rode out a coup, followed by massacres that killed 500,000 people, and emerged as the country's leader. In this one, economic ruin threatens to topple him. Yet as the rupiah plunges into worthlessness, the nation's debts go unpaid, the International Monetary Fund suspends emergency aid, and students riot in universities, he blithely has himself reappointed to his seventh five-year term as President...
Suharto never forgot his formative values, even as he rose in the ranks of the army and came to rule in the aftermath of the deadly coup. "He was conditioned by this village," says Notosuwito, a half brother of the President's and village chief of neighboring Argomulyo since 1969. Sitting at his desk signing forms and smoking clove-scented cigarettes, Notosuwito explains that he himself has 50 retainers. They work for him, and in return he makes sure they are fed, that their daughters marry well, that they have money if they are sick. "It is similar with Suharto...
...example, A Nightmare on Elm Street on Halloween. On the big screen. For free. The answer: start your own film society! It's fun, it's cool, and it sounds intellectual and artsy. (Hey, three guys in Lowell House did it.) If that doesn't work, start a coup and force Your own (already-functioning) House Film Society to have weekend-long "Simpsons" marathons, without the commercials or the end credits. Two thumbs...
...makes a yearly pilgrimage to Disney World, what can possibly come next? Multimillions in endorsements, surely, but not even a rich child-queen can reign safely in this sport of revolving crowns. Skating's next monarch-in-waiting could be anywhere in the world, hatching her own devastating coup. By 2002, who knows...
...last week in Williamsburg, Va., NEWT GINGRICH sidled up to BILL PAXON and asked if they could have a chat. That raised eyebrows: relations between the two have been ice-cold since last summer, when the New York Congressman lost his leadership job after taking part in a failed coup attempt against the Speaker. Despite the bad blood, Gingrich quietly pressed Paxon for his support when the Speaker runs for re-election in December...