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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want it. Habibie had been slipped into the No. 2 position of Vice President only 10 weeks ago by his patron of 24 years, the Indonesian strongman he slavishly referred to as S.G.S., Supergenius Suharto. The mere suggestion that Suharto's successor at the height of Indonesia's search for an economic bailout would be a man widely regarded as a free-spending eccentric shocked the bankrupt rupiah into a 36% crash. But Habibie (commonly referred to as B.J.) possesses the one quality Suharto needed, extreme loyalty, and continued to give it to the embattled President while students trampled their...
Much to Officer Derosiers' disappointment, three suspects fled the scene before our arrival, and the description is too general to search for them...
Financial risk is a laughable concept to those of us who have no assets to risk. What most Americans truly need is credit-card rates that reflect today's realities. I'd be happy to pay a small fee to a big company that could search the world for cheaper auto insurance and a less costly car loan. A true genius will make the most of the negative net worth of consumers and provide cheaper services. OMAR BARRAZA Seattle...
...humans." Their usefulness varies with diseases, though. He notes that rodents are better predictors of human reaction to cardiovascular or anti-inflammatory agents than to cancer or diseases of the central nervous system. But that's a trade-off researchers are more than willing to accept in their search for a cancer cure. "If you find a favorite agent doesn't work," Oliff says, "you simply throw it away and go on to something else...
...HORSE WHISPERER (May 15). In his first film as star and director, Robert Redford, 60, talks to the animals and delicately woos Kristin Scott Thomas, a matronly 37. Will the teen-girl audience in search of movie romance cotton to a man who's old enough to be Leonardo's grandfather? Not DiCaprio's--da Vinci's. (Bygones...