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...denied by Wahid's backroom maneuvering. Although his own Islamic party commands only 10 percent of the seats in parliament, Wahid managed to shut her out with the support of a number of smaller Muslim parties and the party of the former dictator Suharto - and then showed a deft political touch by bringing her in as vice president in order to defuse the anger of her supporters on the streets outside...
...seats in parliament, but managed to beat out the center-left populist Megawati Sukarnoputri - who had won a plurality of the votes in the 1999 presidential election - by cobbling together a coalition comprising Suharto's Golkar party and a number of smaller Islamic parties. He then showed a deft political touch by bringing Megawati in as his vice president, to neutralize the danger posed by her supporters on the streets...
...Wahid may have proved a deft manipulator of the complex backroom machinations that pervade Indonesian politics, but in the end he was simply a compromise figure sufficiently acceptable to the nation's political, business and military elites to preside over a temporary equilibrium. Now that the students are back on the streets, the currency and stock market are in the doldrums, the provinces are restive, the military is fidgety and the political sharks have smelled blood, the Wahid equilibrium may have been shattered...
...Crimson will look to returning sophomore forward Brett Nowak to compensate for Pettit's absence. Nowak left the team to play for the United States at the World Junior Championships. His comeback will add some valuable experience and a deft playmaker's touch to the Harvard attack...
...been fast and, so far, deft: Three women. Two blacks. One Hispanic. Five white guys. George W. Bush is about half done with his Cabinet and if you look past the names, the range and the diversity, the gist so far is pragmatic and pro-business - with plenty of hands-on Washington experience...