Word: indonesianness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pitch diversions are part of an effort to make his team a complete entertainment package?and justification for raising ticket prices 300%. Another innovation Suwarso has in mind: season tickets. Amazingly, that would be a first in the National League. "No team has ever made a profit in Indonesian football," says Suwarso, a soccer fan who didn't let his enthusiasm for the game wane during his four years at Indiana's Purdue University. "My whole club is designed to make money...
...already sold two of his Indonesian players, to teams in Holland and Britain, and he believes a young Singaporean striker will net him an additional $250,000. To make his plan work, however, he needs to secure the kind of corporate sponsorship one sees around the pitches of the Serie A or Premiership. In Suwarso's dreams, of course, every player has his chest festooned with logos. So far coffeemaker Torabika and cement manufacturer Indocement have signed on. "We're changing more than the game," says Suwarso's brother and assistant coach Marvin. "We're hoping to change the culture...
...Where there's a buck to made, someone in Shenzhen will make it. Wiwijaya, an Indonesian-born ethnic Chinese, tells the harrowing story of his brother, who was suffering from renal failure. He ordered a replacement kidney for $25,000 and, as a 26-year-old, made the journey to southern China from Medan in 1996. The transplant was successful, but when he returned for an internal checkup last August something went terribly wrong. His stomach swelled up, his new kidney collapsed and he fell into a coma. A second transplant was ordered. "But the doctor had another plan," says...
...Darley Boit” and Paul Gauguin’s “Women and a White Horse,” but also lesser-known works such as a small ancient Greek “Head of Aphrodite” from the 4th century B.C. and a delicate gold Indonesian crown from the 13th century. Although using furniture as the basis for floral interpretation might seem difficult, a surprising number of arrangements dealt with cabinets, chairs, silverware, and other “objets...
...believe that it is quite important for the House Masters to reflect the composition of the student body," said Liem, who is Indonesian. "We have a very diverse student body, I feel we should also have a diverse group of Masters...