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Moreover, Suharto's shadow may hang over Indonesia until the disposition of the ex-dictator's allegedly ill-begotten fortune is determined. Last month a court in Jakarta threw out a defamation suit brought by Suharto against TIME for a May 1999 article claiming that the President and his family had acquired some $15 billion during his rule. (Suharto has appealed.) Wahid cites the suit as proof of the dictator's hidden wealth. Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono has accused cronies of Suharto's of inciting bloody riots to derail further investigations. Yet in the meantime, Wahid has been secretly negotiating...
These days some of Scruggs' best friends have M.D. after their names. Scruggs is the lawyer who, more than any other, was responsible for the $246 billion settlement agreed to by tobacco companies in 1998 to defray the medical costs of smokers who fall ill. And he arrived in Connecticut with a message those managed care-weary doctors were eager to hear: HMOs are next on his target list. "They are second-guessing doctors' medical decisions with accountants and bean counters," he told the crowd indignantly...
...century B.C. attended plays by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. Londoners in Elizabethan England enjoyed the plays of Shakespeare. Americans in the 21st century watch Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Survivor. Does anyone else find this disturbing and frightening? (THE REV.) FRANK L. HOSS Bourbonnais, Ill...
People who carry weapons generally use them only in self-defense. Why don't more women carry guns? One shot could have stopped the Central Park idiocy and done the rest of us a favor. DAVID DONEY Hoffman Estates, Ill...
...their legal counsel. Friday, when a Florida jury returned their $145 billion verdict against the country's largest cigarette manufacturers, attorneys for Philip Morris (which was ordered to pay more than $70 billion of the punitive damages) met the news with the same charm one might expect from an ill-tempered boa constrictor. Several were actually frothing at the mouth...