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During his long reign, Suharto led an outwardly modest life. Behind the facade, however, he showed an appetite for making money. In the 1950s, he was allegedly involved in sugar smuggling that may have cost him command of an army division during a 1959 anticorruption drive. Suharto asserts that he bartered sugar for rice to ease a local food shortage and did not benefit personally, but he was transferred to a less influential position at the army staff college...
...energized Christian faith. Since the massacre in Littleton, Susan's church youth group has prayed regularly for the students at Columbine High School. The calamity, its emotional impact reinforced last week by the shooting in Conyers, Ga., has also transfixed her school's Campus Life faith group, led by her older brother Devon. As a result, Susan has reached a personal decision, one based on the example of her new hero, a Christian victim of the Colorado massacre named Cassie Bernall. "If there was a shooter in my school," declares the 12-year-old gravely, "I'd volunteer to sacrifice...
Combined with the best current measurements of the universe's density, the Hubble constant led scientists to their estimate of 12 billion years for the universe...
First, Freddie's death was entirely our fault, whereas in my aunt's case, accountability for death was spread all over the meat-packing plant. There, one person herded the hogs into the hall; one person led them into the holding pen; one person pushed them up the plank; one person knocked them unconscious with a stun gun. Someone else pushed them onto the conveyor belt and yet another person operated the belt that processed the animals. "You know, I didn't really kill them," my aunt said...
...believe that in my tenure review Harvard failed to comply with its own formal procedures, institutional policies and norms of fundamental fairness enshrined in them. The associate provost of the University vigorously led opposition against me within my department (which nevertheless recommended me for tenure); the ad hoc committee, which advised the president about my tenure and was assembled by the office of the dean where the associate provost's spouse serves as associate dean for academic affairs, was severely flawed; and my candidacy for tenure was denied in April 1997 without explanation by the University president...