Word: grips
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...conservative Heritage Foundation, John Fonte, a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute, makes the case that for all the famous convergence at the center of American politics (supposedly a legacy of Clintonism - not too liberal, not too conservative, but a little of both), America remains in the grip of a profound culture...
...Wahid's grip on power, then, was predicated on playing the different power centers off against one another. The scale of his defeat Thursday suggests the strategy may have backfired: On one side of the power equation, he had antagonized the generals by attempting to diminish the power they'd traditionally wielded and accepting independence for East Timor. On the other, he had made enemies of the business and political elite of the Suharto era by pressing corruption charges against the former dictator and his family. To Megawati's allies, he was increasingly being seen as a dangerous and unstable...
...Almost from the get-go, however, the diminutive and nearly-blind president has struggled to keep his grip on power amid rampant corruption and political infighting, economic turmoil and the increasingly violent fracturing of Indonesia that followed last year's bloodletting in East Timor. Christian-Muslim violence continues to rage in the Moluccas, while the mineral-rich provinces of Aceh and Irian Jaya press more forcefully for independence - a scenario as unpalatable to the military as it is to the nationalist Megawati...
...mistresses and illegitimate offspring. In the mid-'80s, the Elite and the Church banded together to help organize Manila's masses against Marcos, a moment of triumph they have never forgotten. The fact that a high percentage of Filipinos loved Estrada was exasperating. Even more inconvenient was his grip on the Senate, which seemed to ensure that he would stay in power. The solution: to bring hundreds of thousands of Filipinos onto Manila's streets. But the Philippine polity is 77 million-strong. Was this a revolution of the Filipino people - or of a few hundred thousand Filipinos prompted...
Caught in the war's grip are 51 million Congolese. The International Rescue Committee, a group based in New York City that helps people fleeing war and violence, estimates that in the 30 months since the war broke out, more than 2 million people have died as a result of fighting, most of them from preventable diseases and malnutrition. At least a third of the deaths have been children under five. Kabila's death last week may have got the most headlines, but it is not the country's first war-related casualty, and it is unlikely...