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...country's wealthiest ethnic-Chinese businessmen and a man known for his close ties to the gambling underworld. Taufik and some family members (but not Megawati) were vacationing on an island owned by Winata. Taufik also famously conducted a prolonged shopping spree in New York City with Jacob Nursalim, the nephew of Syamsul Nursalim, one of Indonesia's largest debtors. Indeed, as TIME wrapped up an interview with Taufik at his home on a recent Saturday morning, Jacob could be seen waiting in the wings, tying the shoes of Taufik's three-year-old granddaughter and preparing Taufik's bags...
...TIME: What about big businessmen?and debtors?like Marimutu Sinivasan and Syamsul Nursalim, who has fled the country. Are they friends of yours? You know Nursalim's nephew, Jacob, well. Taufik: I don't know Marimutu, only his secretary. Jacob is an old friend of mine. I know there's a risk and that people will say things, but I don't want to go back to the Suharto era of stigmas when they say you can't hang out with this person or that person. Still, I hope (Jacob's) not playing dirty...
...team race at Army on April 20 and 21, the Harvard foursome of Gillespie, Medical School student Chad E. Connor, Business School student Peter M. Everett and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Jacob D. Proctor dominated the rest of the field, finishing 50 seconds ahead of second place Penn State...
...with her first cousin's son Mark. "I was trying so hard to convince myself not to have these feelings," she recalls, "that I went to the Bible looking for confirmation that it was wrong. And what I found was the exact opposite: support for cousin marriages." The patriarch Jacob married two of his first cousins, Rachel and Leah; Isaac and Rebekah were first cousins once removed. (The Roman Catholic Church has opposed cousin marriages for more than a millennium but gives dispensation to couples considered worthy.) Smith married Mark in 1999; this year she founded a group called CUDDLE...
...child. In fact, the DNA labs often get used toothbrushes or pacifiers from their customers instead of the normally requested mouth swabs. The majority of labs will also use these personal effects to extract DNA samples. Because he considers surreptitious genetic fingerprinting "a massive invasion of personal privacy," Joachim Jacob, Germany's Commissioner for Data Protection, is moving to ban DNA paternity tests. It's unfair that "the unauthorized opening of a letter is a criminal offense, while clandestine paternity tests are not," he says. "Just imagine a mother-in-law has a suspicion and endangers the whole family structure...