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...ruler from 1967 to 1998. He was forced to step down in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, but the controversy over his reign continued. Indonesia's new government launched inquiries into the corruption. Suharto sued TIME after it published its own 1999 investigation into his ill-gotten gains. He won his lawsuit on appeal; TIME is challenging the decision. Suharto spent his postrule years living comfortably?and avoiding trial for his abuses?in central Jakarta...
...Some of the strikers complained that Mitzi was taking retribution against them. One of them was Steve Lubetkin, a New York comic who had moved west and gotten close to Mitzi but wound up joining the picketers. After the comics went back to work, he complained that Mitzi would no longer give him any time slots. He appealed to Dreesen, who was getting ready to go back on the road. "He came up to me and said, Tom, don't leave; she'll retaliate. I said, she can't; it's in the contract. He said, I've called...
...have to play catch-up again in the rematch. With 3:59 to play in the opening frame, a layup from senior Lindsay Hallion gave Harvard a lead that it would not relinquish. “I don’t know if we could have gotten any worse,” coach Kathy Delaney Smith said if the first matchup between the two teams. “We just weren’t playing well. But all in all, it was a great wakeup call, not a bad loss.”In addition to establishing a lead early...
...Caroline normally hasn't gotten involved in politics. E.K.: I think what she wrote [on the New York Times op-ed page Sunday] is really what she felt. She wrote that in just a few hours. She writes very quickly, very eloquently and carefully. She introduced me one time at a convention, and she wrote the talk in about three or four hours, and you didn't have to change it a bit. So she writes what she thinks, thinks what she writes, and does it very powerfully, and I think that article really sets...
...scene that greeted the candidate backstage could have been a Kennedy family reunion. Ted's branch of the clan had gotten there first. The senator was there with his congressman son Patrick, Ted's wife Vicki, and Vicki's son Curran. Then Caroline arrived with her three teenagers. Teddy's sisters, Eunice Shriver and Jean Kennedy Smith, showed up too, along with an assortment of their children and grandchildren. Through the blue curtains, the crowd was thundering...