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...Indonesians last year overthrew longtime strongman and U.S. ally President Suharto, setting the stage for an election that has inevitably opened old wounds. Suharto's handpicked successor, President B. J. Habibie, faces his toughest challenge from an opposition coalition led by Megawati Sukarnopurti -- the left-leaning daughter of President Sukarno, who was overthrown by Suharto in a bloody coup in 1965. Still, says Dowell, "Habibie can't lose -- he's the approved candidate of the military, which keeps 238 of the 500 seats in parliament for their own appointees." The military orchestrated Suharto's ouster in the face of mass...
...century had its share of great thinkers. Einstein, most notably, was the greatest theorist since Newton, whose universe he overthrew. Einstein's ideas led to making the 20th a century of physics, one marked by manipulations of subatomic particles in ways that produced everything from atom bombs to silicon chips...
This is the century that split the atom, probed the psyche, spliced genes and cloned a sheep. It invented plastic, radar and the silicon chip. It built airplanes, rockets, satellites, televisions, computers and atom bombs. It overthrew our inherited ideas about logic, language, learning, mathematics, economics and even space and time. And behind each of these great ideas, great discoveries and great inventions is, in most cases, one extraordinary human mind...
...second-and-three from the Dartmouth 37,Patterson ran a long post down the middle of thefield, but Linden overthrew him at the Dartmouth10. Sophomore safety Brad Eissler corralled theinterception across his body, but lost control ashe landed...
Instead, it was largely the veterans, the starsof the Crimson squad, that shot the offense in thefoot. Besides Menick's personal foul, Linden went6-of-18 for 47 yards in the second half, includinga fourth-quarter interception deep in MountainHawk territory on which he overthrew the intendedreceiver by fully 10 yards...