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...Tengku Lukman Sinar, born in 1933, lives in one of Medan's leafier neighborhoods in a spacious house with a driveway and a satellite dish. He can use the honorific "tengku" because his father was a Sultan, the last Sultan of Serdang. Other descendants of Sultans dropped the tengku because their fathers, many of whom were allied with the colonizing Dutch, were jailed or murdered during the independence campaigns of the 1940s. Sinar's father died in 1946, but of natural causes. He had allied himself with Sukarno. A wise choice, though his family was still marched...
...seems to be taking great pleasure in pointing out what they see as philosophical inconsistencies of those on the right who have taken an independent approach to the issue of stem cells. Senator Orrin Hatch, a staunch right-to-lifer, makes a distinction between an embryo in a petri dish and one inside a woman's womb. So does Connie Mack, another committed right-to lifer. They both suggest that embryos outside a woman's uterus are not potential life and can be used for research. "Ha!," those on the left seem to be responding, "if you really were...
...personal life - as the show illustrates with family videos and photos. In a publicity picture from 1962, Hitchcock's wife Alma opens the refrigerator to find the director's head sitting on the back of the top shelf. Alma barely hides her laugh as she stares down at the dish. In home movies with his daughter, Patricia, he comes across as a normal dad, playing with baby toys...
...countertop--where there was nothing before. PVI is negotiating to do placements in reruns of Law & Order and hopes to strike deals with other syndicators and even first-run shows. "You could sell a box of cereal in the kitchen one [airing]," says PVI vice president Paul Slagle, "and dish soap in the next." PVI's Holy Grail: customizing insertions using interactive-TV technology--which is still distant and speculative--that would store viewer information (demographic details, even interactive purchases) as Web browsers do. Your TV would figure, Slagle says, "whether you're riper for a Cadillac or a Saturn...
...racial hostility. It sounds harmless, but some refused on the grounds that it was wrong for the group to enforce "political correctness." Shortly thereafter, Foreign Secretary Robin Cook suggested - to some derision - that Britain's multicultural success was shown by chicken tikka masala becoming the country's most popular dish. Then a retiring Tory backbencher raised temperatures when he said the British were becoming a "mongrel" race through immigration. Hague forced him to apologize. The gusts of opinion that these incidents provoked are signs of how hard Britain is finding it to answer the question of who is "really" British...