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...story of how Taufik sought to keep a chunk of Freeport shares under Indonesian ownership?which he himself confirms?is one example of what is today Jakarta's hottest topic: the increasingly dominant role the President's husband is exercising at the most senior levels of government and business. This isn't another case of your regular, pushy presidential spouse playing gatekeeper, but of a consummate networker aggressively meddling in matters with national ramifications. To many Indonesians, the flamboyant 58-year-old Taufik is now simply the most powerful man in the country. "If Megawati is Number One and Vice...
...requiring registration and background checks of professional and volunteer firefighters. Delaware already requires screening for ambulance drivers and a similar rule for firefighters is likely to follow. This week, delegates from 25 states will gather in New York City for the annual meeting of the NASFM, during which the topic of screening is expected to be widely discussed. "We're trying to develop some guidelines," says association attorney Tony Walker. Until that happens, fire marshals and local departments will have to continue warily policing their own. - With reporting by David Bjerklie and Sora Song/New York, Christopher Preston/Washington and Rita Healy/Denver
...feature film. He and two partners are cranking out about five TV movies a year for Germany's two private networks. Davis says, "My shows are almost all for women," who predominate among prime-time viewers and who appreciate "a strong societal component." The movie for RTL introduced the topic of date rape to many German households and, as part of the drama, explained what qualifies as date rape...
...Frankel, who graduated from Harvard Medical School today and handed out fliers just outside the Yard, said he thought the subject of jihad was an inappropriate topic for Commencement because of its painful association to violence...
...with a mix of high-handed vote rigging and indifference to public opinion. For Muslim Pakistan, still smarting decades after the 1971 war in which India successfully broke Bangladesh--then East Pakistan--away from West Pakistan, Kashmir remains a call to arms, a national obsession and the one topic on which there is near unanimity. The cause is seen by some in Pakistan as a jihad, a holy war; it is viewed with clarity and single-mindedness of purpose. The identity of Pakistan, whose rulers, it can be argued, have failed their people over the years--literacy is only around...