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...SULTAN OF BRUNEI Brother's $15 billion spree leads to auction of palatial trimmings. Airbus, anyone...
USHER Prince Azim, son of the Sultan of Brunei, attended one of the shows on the singer's European tour and, according to a report, proffered the R.-and-B. sex symbol $250,000 worth of gifts. Usher's publicist wouldn't comment on the gifts story, but confirmed that the prince and the rock star met at a concert. Any talk of oil prices...
...leave with them. At dusk, villagers hear short bursts of gunfire. The next morning, a policeman reports that soldiers killed six "hard-core" militants during the search and a subsequent skirmish; three soldiers were injured. Four of the dead are later identified as Shawkat Ahmed, Mohammed Ashraf, Mohammed Sultan and Altaf Ahmed, all from the neighboring area of Rafiaabad. (The two others are not named.) District magistrate Sheikh Mohammed Hussain later admits the four were unarmed civilians, and promises $2,123 to each of their families as compensation and a job to a relative of one of the dead...
...Tengku Lukman Sinar, born in 1933, lives in one of Medan's leafier neighborhoods in a spacious house with a driveway and a satellite dish. He can use the honorific "tengku" because his father was a Sultan, the last Sultan of Serdang. Other descendants of Sultans dropped the tengku because their fathers, many of whom were allied with the colonizing Dutch, were jailed or murdered during the independence campaigns of the 1940s. Sinar's father died in 1946, but of natural causes. He had allied himself with Sukarno. A wise choice, though his family was still marched...
...Sinar himself has always been comfortable, Sultan or not. He inherited a palm oil plantation and he teaches history and ethnomusicology. His life, he says, goes from "one seminar to the next." As a tengku, he blesses a ceremony here or there and performs the local equivalent of supermarket openings. Neighbors come to him for advice, interactions he enjoys though "it's hard if they arrive when I'm having a siesta." In his living room, above the couch, is a picture of his father in full regalia. He is stunning, all sashes and ribbons. Sinar, sitting in a high...