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...eerily practiced, beatific smile, a secular philosophy that tamped down religious extremism, and an anticommunist bent that made him a key cold war ally for the U.S. Yet army general Suharto was also a brutal dictator who purged hundreds of thousands of critics as Indonesia's ruler from 1967 to 1998. He was forced to step down in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, but the controversy over his reign continued. Indonesia's new government launched inquiries into the corruption. Suharto sued TIME after it published its own 1999 investigation into his ill-gotten gains. He won his lawsuit...
...key player will be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is against retroactive immunity for the telecoms but is being pressured to cave by moderate Democrats who face tough re-election battles this fall. "She's going to push very hard to not have immunity," says a top Pelosi aide, but "it just depends how much leverage she has." To outsiders, that sounds like a walk-up to folding, and civil-liberties groups are pressuring Democratic House chairmen to push back. "It's completely in her hands," says Michelle Richardson of the ACLU. "Nothing can force her to have the House...
...key, says Dr. David Sachs, a surgeon at Mass General and Harvard who led the study, is to prepare a patient's immune system well before the surgery?or, to be more exact, to deplete the immune system's T cells, which normally patrol the body looking for foreign invaders like bacteria, viruses and tissues from outside donors. Several days before the transplant surgery, Sachs' team used drugs that target and eliminate these cells to wipe the immune slate clean. Then the team transplanted the kidney along with donor bone-marrow cells. What happened next was surprising: the bone marrow...
...growth will come in the future," says Jo Yan, senior vice president of sales, co-productions and acquisitions for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Asia Pacific. "But at this point we're not arrogant enough to think that we know everything about these markets, so we believe working with key partners...
...will be an integral part of every film or video game it produces for every market--not just in Asia. "We've always concentrated on making sure our characters have global appeal," says Christian Kubsch, managing director of the Singapore studio. In fact, the company has made Singapore a key part of its strategy. Company execs see it as a launching point for building the brand in neighboring countries like China and India, two of its fastest-growing marketplaces. The Singapore studio will also spearhead Lucasfilm's first animated feature film this year, and its employees will soon make...