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...Annals of Linguistics Waltzing Mahathir...
...Officials, meanwhile, are said to be attacking the absent Finance Minister freely, particularly his recent decisions to bail out?with public funds?businessmen regarded as protEgEs. Just how far Mahathir will go to distance himself from his old friend is unclear. Political analysts in Kuala Lumpur say they are watching closely to see whether Daim's business associates come under intensified official scrutiny. But the Prime Minister might decline to escalate the rift to the public sphere. Conspiracy theorists say he wouldn't dare. "Daim just knows too much, all the political and financial secrets of the past 20 years...
...next few weeks. "We are definitely at a major turning point," says Manu Bhaskaran, chief Asian economist at SG Securities. So far, most of the casualties have been relatively small fry: six party functionaries were suspended for practicing "money politics" during recent party elections. But a clear indication of Mahathir's resolve will come when the party's Supreme Council decides whether or not to take disciplinary action against UMNO secretary-general Khalil Yaacob. Although accusations of corruption against Khalil were brought by a lowly state assemblyman, they have received extensive coverage in the tightly controlled press, potentially...
...most of the discussions taking place in Kuala Lumpur's smoke-filled rooms center on the Daim-Mahathir split. Daim is currently traveling in the U.S., following the Prime Minister's announcement in mid-April that his longtime confidant was taking an unusual three-month break from his job. When asked whether the decision to take leave was a precursor to Daim's resignation, Mahathir declined to elaborate, saying: "If you ask me and I answer, he might get angry...
...Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Three previous Deputy Prime Ministers have fallen by the wayside, including his imprisoned predecessor Anwar Ibrahim. And now, with the Prime Minister apparently renewing contacts with perennial contender Razaleigh Hamzah, the last thing Abdullah needs is to get caught in the middle of a political earthquake. "Mahathir had better make sure that while he's trimming the deadwood he doesn't saw off the branch he's sitting on," says a political analyst in Kuala Lumpur. But, then, Mahathir is the great survivor of Malaysian politics...