Word: ahmad
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...Then there's the X factor, the personal magnetism that has drawn hordes of acolytes, from secretaries to corporate bigwigs. "I don't just listen to him," says Lieut. Colonel Ahmad Saefudin, who leads an army cavalry division in Bandung. "I follow him." Chairul Tanjung, chairman of Bank Mega, one of the country's 10 largest banks, puts it differently, but the enthusiasm is the same: "Our generation has few people like him. The country needs someone who can help reduce the gap between business and morality...
...already a consummate showman. The talent was developed early. Born the first of four children, he took a variety of jobs?from selling newspapers to driving a minibus?to support himself before and after his years as an electrical-engineering student and a fledgling entrepreneur. But according to Ahmad Soliekhin, one of Aa Gym's closest aides and a former conductor on his minibus, it was their experience together as itinerant buskers that brought them the most success. "We used to get called back to the rich people's houses the next day for a repeat performance," says Ahmad, smiling...
...only we could find anyone capable of leading a representative government. Political dissidents foolhardy enough to remain inside Iraq have a short shelf life. The Iraqi National Congress, an umbrella organization of exiled dissidents, is eager to return to Iraq but lacks any credibility inside the country. The president, Ahmad Chalabi, is widely seen as a corrupt show-off, and the organization’s last attempt to start an uprising against Saddam was an embarrassing failure. We will not find the next leader of Iraq chatting with Western reporters in a London restaurant...
Lots to talk about. Try to hear Ahmad Rashad’s “Rewind” voice from “NBA Inside Stuff” (THURSDAY!) in your head as we touch upon notable sporting news in the past week...
...work are padlocked. The union and the factory's workers are camped out in the one building they have access to, which houses the union office and what used to be the "Nike School," where the sneaker company ran a supplemental education program. They intend to stay there, says Ahmad Saukani, the 35-year-old vice chairman of the company union, until they get fair severance pay. The target of the workers ire is PT Doson Indonesia, the company that ran the factory as a supplier for Nike. Still, about 2,000 workers protested outside of Nike's Jakarta headquarters...