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In the last days of his life, singer Mbah Surip said he was very tired and wanted to rest peacefully. He is now resting peacefully, but this time for eternity. Mbah Surip, whose real name is Urip Ariyanto, died on Aug. 4, 2009, aged 60. He was taken to the Pusdikkes hospital in East Jakarta, but died at 10:30 a.m., not long after he arrived at the hospital. Mbah Surip's friend, comedian Mamiek Prakoso, said the eccentric singer had come to his house the day before he died, saying he was tired.[...] "Mbah Surip told me, *I'm very tired, I want to take a rest here at your home. It's peaceful here, not like other *places* where there are many reporters'," Mamiek said. Mamiek said that, realizing just how tired Mbah Surip was, he advised his friend to seek medical help. "But Mbah Surip refused to go to the hospital. He said: *I'm afraid reporters will come after me *at the hospital*'," Mamiek said. "So I called the doctor to check him. Then ...

In a couple of months, TV gossip show host Inggrid Kansil will have what she calls a side income. As she already earns plenty from showbiz, recently elected legislator Inggrid is vowing to share her first government paycheck with the needy. “I’ve been planning to do that. Maybe not all, but at least a big part of it will go to my constituents in Sukabumi [West Java],” said the member of the Democratic Party, as quoted by newsportal kapanlagi.com on Wednesday.[...] “Hopefully, they can use it as working capital,” added the entertainer, who also recently launched her own line of headscarves. In addition to her plan to donate her pay from her position in the House of Representatives, the 32-year-old has drafted her own work program for her first 100 days as an elected representative. “In 100 days, I want to make a difference for my constituents,” said the wife of current legislator Syarief Hassan. “This was my aim since I first decided to run for a seat. I want to build and develop craft ...

In the fall of 1968, six months after civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, Tim Wise was born to lower-middle-class white parents down the road in Nashville. DAVID COOK lives with his wife and two small children in a cabin in Walden, Tennessee, and teaches high-school courses on democracy, justice, and American history in nearby Chattanooga. He is working on a biography of a Gregorian monk who lives and works among the urban homeless. Wise, who would later commit himself to carrying on King’s fight for a racially just society, grew up in a nation struggling to redefine itself: sweeping reform legislation had been passed, ending legalized segregation, but black Americans remained largely shut out of decent jobs, housing, and education. Wise went to Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he called for the university to divest its holdings in apartheid South Africa. In the early 1990s Wise fought fiercely to defea...