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...Still, that legacy could come undone if the pressing domestic problems of infrastructure, poverty, bureaucratic reform and corruption are not dealt with promptly. While most agree the latest elections further solidify democratization, others warn that the country's authoritarian past cannot be forgotten. "We are going back to a one-man show," says Nico Harjanto, a political researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta. "This is more dynasty politics." Given that one of SBY's sons, at 28, was the largest vote-getter in the Parliamentary elections without ever having given an interview that might...
...harvested. He'll wander - make that blunder - into dangerous situations and, in the movie's sharpest moment, tiptoe through a nest of baby dinosaurs, sedating the little ones by singing "I Hope I Get It" from A Chorus Line. Less overbearing than in his earlier films but no less resolute, Ferrell seems to be channeling his George W. Bush impression from Saturday Night Live and the one-man Broadway show that earned him a Tony nomination. Rick has that same unwarranted self-assurance, the same blindness to his crippling dooficity...
...join the fun. "I saw all these kids and thought, Hey, no parents," he says. "And there I was, at 16, still on my mom's passport." As an undergraduate at the University of Washington, he began backpacking in Europe every summer. Within a few years, he started a one-man company leading minibus tours. He published his first guidebook in 1980; a generation later, Steves employs 80 people and has spent roughly a third of his life living out of a suitcase. (Yeah, he designs and sells those...
...strong executive power, with a president elected by the people separately from Congress and with powers extending well beyond mere execution of the laws. America is the first republic to have a strong executive and much of its success is due to it. A strong executive looks like one-man rule, the very monarchy against which republics have always contested; its danger is obvious to partisans of republics and that is why before our Constitution, republics used to have weak executives...
...game had turned into a 9-to-1 game. I forget who was winning. It may have been the team of scrappy overachievers with nine players who make more than $13 million per year. The math I was interested in was $112. Impressive for a one-man eating band, but the Yankees were still making a killing on my ticket. Bloat was setting in, and as I stuffed three more bags of peanut M&Ms ($15) in my pockets on the way out, I felt a little depressed...