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...University of Malaya notes, a recent survey showed that 90% of professionals said they had consulted spirit me-diums for marital, health or work-related problems. "Most of these (mediums) are harmless. It is like watching David Copperfield," Hairudin says. But he adds that the regular reports in Malaysian newspapers of ritual dismemberment and the discovery of skulls and other body parts used in occult rituals testify to the continuing popularity of a much darker side to Malaysians' faith in the spirit world...
...After 14 years in the country, Carolyn Bushell was Malaysian enough to turn for help to the spirits when her world started to fall apart. She first arrived in 1987 after marrying a fellow student from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, Malaysian Raslan Ahmad. The couple had three children and her husband prospered, rising to become general manager of the prestigious private hospital in Ipoh, an old mining town in central Malaysia where the family settled. But by late 1999, she and Raslan communicated mostly by shouting and Carolyn had formed a friendship with an ethnic Indian man named Michael...
...woes. He has cut back on incentives for foreign investors and balked at forcing companies to repay their debts. Late last year, Taiwan's President Chen ordered banks to keep lines of credit open to delinquent debtors, a move that has put a straitjacket on liquidity and dampened investment. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad clings to a peg that has hugely overvalued the ringgit. "It's going to take Thailand and Malaysia 10 years," says Tim Condon, chief economist at ING Barings. "So far, most Asian economies aren't willing to let the market have its way with them...
...Fighting words? You'd think so. "We don't want to get into some slanging match with Dr. Mahathir," said Aussie Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, and the entire nation rallied around that line. TIME surveyed Australia's best and brightest and none volunteered to stand up to the feisty Malaysian. Tart-tongued former Prime Minister Paul Keating, who publicly clashed with Mahathir in the '90s, refused to comment, as did Aussie icon Paul Hogan, nationalist politician Pauline Hanson, Wolverine Hugh Jackman, Guy Pearce, Cate Blanchett, Elle MacPherson and Kiwi Gladiator Russell Crowe, who grew up down under. Publicists begged...
...Arroyo, say aides, was shattered. Earlier, Abu Sayyaf, a group that uses an Islamic banner to justify kidnapping, massacres and extortion, had given the President 48 hours to accept a Malaysian businessman as negotiator. After that, Abu Sayyaf threatened, it would start killing the hostages. With the clock ticking away, Arroyo gave in to the rebels' demands?only to have them boast of beheading the Californian tourist anyway. Jeered Abu Sabaya: "It's up to you to find Sobero's head ... but the dogs may beat you to it." Speaking to diplomats after the 103rd Independence Day festivities, the diminutive...