Word: aloof
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Incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri looks to gain the greatest immediate benefit from the changes. As virtually the only Indonesian politician with national recognition, electoral triumph in 2004 seems almost assured for the increasingly aloof leader. Besides the assurance of a public mandate, Megawati will also be spared the threat of removal by the unruly assembly, which last year impeached Abdurrahman Wahid after he served just 21 months of his five-year presidential term...
Nothing reveals the captains more than their treatment of Sacagawea. Lewis could be aloof, dismissing their interpreter's wife as "the Indian woman," observing that "if she has enough to eat and a few trinkets to wear I beleive she would be perfectly content anywhere." But the less formal Clark nicknamed her "Janey" and treated her warmly. She repaid him with gifts, including "two Dozen white weazils tails" on Christmas Day 1805. At the expedition's end, Clark offered to educate her son Pomp, "a butifull promising Child...
...President," says former minister Ramli. For Megawati, who inherited the name of her father, first President Sukarno, but not much of his charisma, Taufik's ability to build coalitions with potentially hostile political factions has provided a critical counterbalance to the silence and sense of entitlement of his notoriously aloof wife. With presidential and parliamentary elections looming in 2004, Taufik's role is more critical than ever...
...culture war, sex won - real, insolent, dirty sex, not Ginger's kind. And class went to the back of the class. It sits there, ignored and aloof, waiting for the young to recognize it. Can't they see how sensational that slim figure back there looks in his top hat, white tie and tails, as an indulgent smile plays on his face and his feet describe elaborate designs on the schoolroom floor? Can't they see that Britney Spears is not dance - that Fred Astaire is? I hope, some day, the kids will get Astaire. He's too cool...
...paternal half is karate-klunker-star Steven Seagal, her mother is Miyako Fujitani, a famous aikido instructor, and their offspring has switched from using brawn to brains to get ahead. After six ditsy roles in movies, Fujitani wrote her first novel, Touhimu, in 1999. It was turned into the aloof and alienated film Ritual, which received an award for Best Artistic Contribution at Tokyo's 13th International Film Festival?a double triumph for Fujitani, since she played the lead. Now, she's busy trying to finish her second novel. "It's tough," she confides over a glass of rye whiskey...