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...await a new government. The June 7 parliamentary election, to be followed by a presidential vote in November, could change the political equation substantially. But Suharto has at least one strong legal shield: the presidential decrees that laid the foundation for Suharto Inc. were each carefully approved by his rubber-stamp parliament. Moreover, Jakarta has a statute of limitations on most offenses that would exclude crimes committed before 1981. For Suharto of Indonesia, that--along with $9 billion in an Austrian bank--should offer considerable comfort in retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: It's All In The Family | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...walk into the stadium wearing roughly half a million racing-related logos. The Winston people are giving away cigarettes. The cars are burning fossil fuel. The noise is obscene. There's a Remington firearms car, a Winston No Bull car, a Skoal car. The smells of raw horsepower, burned rubber and expectorated snuff are cooked by a wicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASCAR: Babes, Bordeaux & Billy Bobs | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...exquisite sense of architectural convention, of stylistic parody, that shows in the dream skyscrapers and iron galleries of his later cityscapes. In 1941 he made his way to Lisbon and from there to the U.S. With difficulty, and with a "slightly fake" passport that he doctored with his own rubber stamp, he reached Miami in 1942, and his definitive expatriation began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fine, Indecipherable Flourishes: SAUL STEINBERG (1914-1999) | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

Senate chair of the joint committee Robert A. Havern '72 said once the report is issued the House and Senate will rubber-stamp the measure...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MBTA Will Add Extra Late-Night Service | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...most valuable asset is his performance in clutch situations. He is one of the most important members of the Crimson rotation and has made more starts (nine) than anyone else on the pitching staff, but he is also Harvard's most reliable closer and his relief performance in the rubber match against Princeton gave him a team-high three saves...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, | Title: Rocket Arm in Rubber Game | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

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